Ethan Frome is a novella published in 1911 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. The novel was adapted into a film. The novel is framed by the literary device of an extended flashback. The prologue opens with an unnamed male narrator spending a winter in Starkfield, a fictional town in New England, while in the area on business. He spots a limping, quiet man around the village, who is somehow compelling in his demeanor and carriage. Curious, the narrator sets out to learn about him. He learns that Frome's limp arose from having been injured in a "smash-up" twenty-four years before, but further details are not forthcoming.
- | Author: Edith Wharton, Yasmira Cedeno
- | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- | Publication Date: May 09, 2017
- | Number of Pages: 104 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1546608893
- | ISBN-13: 9781546608899