A 4 Star Read

Ethan Frome was once mentioned in Edith Wharton’s autobiography, A Backward Glance:

The book to the making of which I brought the greatest joy and the fullest ease was ‘Ethan frome’. For yrs I had wanted to draw life as it really was in the derelict mountain villlages of New England, a life even in my time and a thousandfold more a generation earlier, utterly unlike that seen through the rose coloured spectacles of my predecessors, Mary Wilkins and Sarah Orne Jewett. In those days the snow bound villages of Western Massachusetts were still from places, morally and physically: insanity, incest and slow mental and moral starvation were hidden away behind the paintless wooden house-fronts of the Long villa ge street, or in the isolated farm houses on the neighbouring hills...