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Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

From Smiley’s Iowa, we will move to the New England of 1911. Wharton (The Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth) is SUCH a trail-blazing genius, a master of observing complex human nature. This slim work (190 pages) is intense and bleak in the best of ways.

Another Pulitzer Prize winner, Ethan Frome is snowy and haunting and full of vivid emotion and fraught, puritanical sexual tension.

This valuable voice from a woman at the turn of last century will be SO cool to dissect in the Seminars. If you’re tempted by a classic that’s actually really juicy, you’ll love Ethan Frome.

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