Ethan Frome

Complete and unabridged, with 100 full-page plates by Winslow Homer, Peder Balke and George Inness. A farmer trapped by a hard New England winter, a sick wife who rules from her chair, and the girl who has come to keep house for them. Wharton framed it as a story reconstructed by a stranger years later, so the reader knows from the first pages that something has already gone wrong. She wrote it as...