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Ethan Frome and Selected Stories, by Edith Wharton, is area of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, that provides quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the overall reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully-crafted extras. Below are some of the remarkable top features of Barnes & Noble Classics: All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's knowledge of these enduring works. One of Edith Wharton’s several works of fiction that happens beyond an urban, upper class environment, Ethan Frome brings upon the bleak, barren landscape of rural New England. An undesirable player, Ethan finds herself caught in a miserable relationship to Zeenie, a sickly, tyrannical lady, till he falls in deep love with her visiting relative, the vivacious Mattie Gold.