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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. Hardcover. Fine. First Issue, with top edge gilt, one of 2500 copies ("wearily" on the penultimate line p.135 is unbroken in this copy, but the word appears in both states, broken and perfect, in copies with gilt top edges and without and is thus not an indicator of the first issue). Small 8vo: [6],195,[5, four of which advertisements]pp. Publisher's crimson cloth, spine and upper board stamped gilt, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed, title page in red and black. A superb copy, bright, square and tight. Garrison A 19.I.a. Brenni 5. Johnson, High Spots, pp 76-77. Auchincloss, The Edith Wharton Reader, p. 21. Originally serialized in Scribner's Magazine. By 1910, Teddy Wharton's mental health was fast deteriorating, and his embezzlement of money from Edith's trust fund initiated the end of the Whartons' marriage, as well as Edith's American life. She leased an apartment on the Left Bank, in Paris, where she would remain until 1920. The Mount,…

Ethan Frome is a novel published in 1911 by the American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. The novel was adapted into a film in 1993. The story is a frame narrative concerning an unnamed narrator who tells the story based on an account from observations at Frome's house when he had to stay there during a winter storm. It is a classic of American literature, depicting the struggle between individual desire and social expectations.