preface
acknowledgments
a note on the text
introduction to the 1922 edition
the text of ethan frome
backgrounds and contexts
　edith wharton·"the writing of ethan frome"
　edith wharton·a backward glance
　edith wharton·[on ethan frome's dramatization]
　　letters on ethan frome ( 191o——1912)
　　　edith wharton to elizabeth frelinghuysen davis lodge(june 20 [191o])
　　　edith wharton to bernard berenson (january 4 [1911])
　　　edith wharton to bernard berenson (may 16 [1911])
　　　edith wharton to w. morton fullerton (september 22 [1911])
　　　edith wharton to mary cadwalader jones (september 23, 1911)
　　　edith wharton to w. morton fullerton (october 16 [1911])
　　　edith wharton to charles scribner (november 27 [1911])
　　　henry james to edith wharton (october 25, 1911)
　the berkshire evening eagle·["fatal coasting accident"]
　scott marshall·[edith wharton and kate spencer]
.　r. w. b. lewis·[ethan frome biographically]
　e. h. van deusen, m.d.·observations on a form of nervous prostration
　carroll smith-rosenberg·the hysterical woman: sex roles and role conflict in nineteenth-century america
　carroll d. wright·from the working girls of boston
criticism
　contemporary reviews
　　new york times book review·["three lives in supremc torture"]
　　outlook·["artistic workmanship"]
　　the nation·["as one writes of home"]
　　the hartford daily courant·["not a study of life or character or locality"]
　　saturday review·["things too terrible... to be told"]
　　frederic taber cooper·["art for art's sake"]
　　bookman·["inevitability of a great greek tragedy"]
　　elizabeth shepley sergeant·idealized new england
　modern criticism
　　lionel trilling·the morality of inertia
　　cynthia griffin wolff·[the narrator's vision]
　　elizabeth ammons·[ethan frome as fairy tale]
　　judith fryer·[the spaces of ethan frome]
　　jean frantz blackall·edith wharton's art of ellipsis
　　lev raphael·from edith wharton's prisoners of shame
　　candace waid·["a vision of unrelenting infertility"]
edith wharton: a chronology
selected bibliography