{"product_id":"ethan-frome","title":"WHARTON, EDITH - Ethan Frome","description":"\u003cp\u003e“I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're lonesome.” ― Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe classic novel of despair, forbidden emotions, and sexual undercurrents set against the austere New England countryside.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEthan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. But when Zeena'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn one of American fiction'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's other works, Ethan Frome has become perhaps her most enduring and most widely read book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA True Classic that Belongs on Every Bookshelf!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"LittleFreeBookshop.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47845034492062,"sku":"9781508474135","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0774\/9091\/3438\/files\/9781508474135.jpg?v=1781187303","url":"https:\/\/littlefreebookshop.com\/products\/ethan-frome","provider":"LittleFreeBookshop.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}