# Ethan Frome

**Author:** Edith Wharton
**Tags:** Domestic fiction, Married people, Triangles (Interpersonal relations), New England, Accident victims, Rural poor
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**Added:** 10.07.2026
**URL:** https://samolit.com/books/95877

## Description

In the icy, isolation-bound village of Starkfield, Massachusetts, a poor farmer's quiet endurance masks a lifetime of thwarted longing. Ethan Frome, married young to his ailing and joyless wife Zeena, finds an unexpected spark of vitality when her lively young cousin Mattie Silver comes to live with them as a household helper. As the bleak New England winter tightens its grip, so too does the emotional pull between Ethan and Mattie, a bond built from stolen glances, quiet walks, and the aching awareness of what neither can have. Hovering over their fragile happiness is Zeena's constant, suspicious presence and the crushing weight of rural poverty, duty, and social convention. When forces beyond their control threaten to separate the two forever, a desperate impulse leads to a fateful decision on a snow-covered hill, one whose consequences will bind all three lives together in unimaginable ways. Told through the eyes of an outside observer piecing together fragments of a tragic past, this spare, haunting tale of thwarted desire and irrevocable choices remains a searing portrait of loneliness, sacrifice, and the quiet devastations of ordinary lives.