They are, of course, referring to “Ethan Frome.”
Edith Wharton also always reminds me of “Shakespeare and Company” who used to do all their productions in the old Edith Wharton mansion (they have since moved), I went almost every year in the 90s.
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Ethan Frome was one of the few books I was made to read in high school that I really really disliked. It was so relentlessly negative and soul-crushing that I found very little of redemptive value in it. Even Shakespeare’s tragedies had moments of beauty and/or emotion in them, but that whole novel was just bleak and destroying. I still hate it to this day.
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Phil