What kind of an accident cripples Ethan Frome in Edith Wharton’s novel, Ethan Frome (1911)?
Ethan Frome and his beloved, Mattie Silver, drive a sled into a tree in a botched suicide attempt in Edith Wharton’s novel, Ethan Frome.
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