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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition, first issue. Near fine with some rubbing to the gilt at the topedge, a touch of light wear, and small bookseller ticket on pastedown, lacking the very rare dustwrapper, in custom slipcase. Wharton's greatest tragic story, conveying most forcefully of all her works her concerns about the confining limitations of social conventions. Along with *The Age of Innocence*, one of the author's two acknowledged masterpieces and increasingly difficult to find in nice condition.

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.