Ethan Frome

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Nathan Osgood

Penguin Classics presents Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome, adapted for audio and available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by Nathan Osgood.

'He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface'

Ethan 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. In one of American fiction's finest and most intense narratives, Edith Wharton moves this ill-starred trio towards their tragic destinies.

Part of a series of vintage recordings taken from the Penguin Archives. Affordable, collectable, quality productions - perfect for on-the-go listening.

Good but small recording blip

Strange fragment of another recording in the middle of chapter 8, but overall well done!

Multiple editing issues with the production

I really enjoyed the narrator, performance, and story. I was frustrated with the fact that there are multiple instances throughout the audiobook where the narrators voice cuts to another scene briefly and then cuts back in — as though they mistakenly clipped in another portion of the book in the wrong spot. Please clean this audiobook up — it’s very confusing and frustrating to the listener.