{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"Hardcover","provider_url":"https://hardcover.app","cache_age":86400,"title":"Ethan Frome","url":"https://hardcover.app/books/ethan-frome","description":"The classic novel of despair, forbidden emotions, and sexual undercurrents set against the austere New England countryside\n\nEthan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. But when Zeena\u0026#39;s vivacious cousin enters their household as a hired girl, Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent.\n\nIn one of American fiction\u0026#39;s finest and most intense narratives, Edith Wharton moves this ill-starred trio toward their tragic destinies. Different in both tone and theme from Wharton\u0026#39;s other works, Ethan Frome has become perhaps her most enduring and most widely read book.","author_name":"Edith Wharton","author_url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/edith-wharton","thumbnail_url":"https://assets.hardcover.app/editions/29856616/3266133272262628.jpg","thumbnail_width":322,"thumbnail_height":495}