If your English class of years gone by formed your opinion of this novel, try it again with this audiobook.Often regarded as Edith Wharton's finest achievement, Ethan Frome contrasts sharply with her usual ironic contemplation of fashionable New York society. Listeners will empathize with Frome’s plight and vividly picture themselves enduring the cold Massachusetts winter. What might be dismissed on the printed page as dreary comes to life.

The story of doomed lovers transcends despair to capture the imagination, thanks to Sims’s energetic and appealing deep voice. Adam Sims delivers an excellent narration, capturing Frome’s distinct New England demeanor and secondary characters’ voices with equal attention to detail. This slim Wharton novel is often overlooked – likely because it lacks the author’s celebrated Old New York setting and intrigue – but this performance of the classic may earn it a second visit.

Titles by Edith Wharton Titles by Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence (unabridged) The Custom of the Country (unabridged) Ethan Frome (unabridged) The House of Mirth (unabridged) Reviews Titles read by Adam Sims Titles read by Adam Sims The American (unabridged) The Aspern Papers (unabridged) The Book of Disquiet (unabridged) The Bostonians (unabridged) Ethan Frome (unabridged) The Europeans (unabridged) Famous Heroes of the American West (unabridged) Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (unabridged) The House of the Seven Gables (unabridged) Looking Backward: 2000–1887 (unabridged) The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (unabridged) Never Cry Wolf (unabridged) Nightmare Alley (unabridged) Pragmatism and The Meaning of Truth (unabridged) Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & The Pride of the Village (unabridged) Rip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Pride of the Village & The Spectre Bridegroom (unabridged) Roderick Hudson (unabridged) The Scarlet Letter (unabridged) Ten Days that Shook the World (unabridged) This Side of Paradise (unabridged) Washington Square (unabridged) Film and theatre credits include: Band of Brothers (HBO), Lost in Space, The Madness of George III (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Alice in Wonderland (RSC), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent’s Park) and Snake in Fridge (Manchester Royal Exchange), for which he won the award for Best Actor at the Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards. His recent recordings for radio include Wenny Has Wings, The World According to Humphrey and The Salamander Letter, all for the BBC.

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