Constance, the wife of a crippled English aristocrat, runs away with her gamekeeper. Includes Archibald MacLeish's letter to Barney Rosset and Judge Bryan's decision in the obscenity case.

Set deep in the remote countryside of Massachusetts, New England, in a world of small-town prejudice, pettiness and rural poverty, the story of Ethan Frome explores the crippling marriage of a young man to an older woman and his love for her vibrant young cousin, Mattie, who lives as a dependent in the Frome household. His feelings lead to a day of explosive emotions with tragic consequences. Published in 1911, two years before Wharton divorced her...