Ethan Frome

Summary

Summer,

also set in rural New England, is often considered a companion to

Ethan Frome

-Wharton herself called it \u201cthe hot Ethan\u201d-in its portrayal of a young woman's sexual and social awakening.

Bunner Sisters

takes place in the narrow, dusty streets of late nineteenth-century New York City, where the constrained but peaceful lives of two spinster shopkeepers are shattered when they meet a man who becomes the unworthy focus of all their pent-up hopes.

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All three of these novellas feature realistic and haunting characters as vivid as any Wharton ever conjured, and together…