Bernard Augustine De Voto

Includes an account of the Crow Indians, called by themselves the Absaroke Indians.

A marked departure from Edith Wharton's usual ironic contemplation of the fashionable New York society to which she herself belonged, Ethan Frome is a sharply etched portrait of the simple inhabitants of a nineteenth-century New England village. The protagonist, Ethan Frome, is a man tormented by a passionate love for his ailing wife's young cousin. Trapped by the bonds of marriage and the fear of public condemnation, he is ultimately destroyed by...

An American classic, with more than 320,000 copies sold-- some of Twain's most pungent and hilarious writings.