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Ethan Frome and Summer

by Edith Wharton · 1911

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This edition presents Wharton's two most controversial stories, which she considered inseparable, in one volume for the first time. Set in frigid New England, both deal with sexual awakening and appetite and their devastating consequences. This text includes newly commissioned notes.

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adult
Length
medium · 274 pages

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