Read by Richard Thomas. Convention and circumstance bind Ethan Frome to a wife he cannot love. Resigned to his fate, he sees for himself a bleak life. But the appearance of his ailing wife's cousin, Matte Silver, rouses a passion that provokes a last, desperate impulse to free himself
Maggie vowed to never marry a man who can’t laugh or dance, but when she and the dull new doctor in town, Everett Dulanis, wind up spending the night together in an abandoned dugout house, all that changes. Her father is the best man and his shotgun is the bridesmaid at the wedding where a union has been made, but there’s certainly no unity. Everett was engaged to Carolina Prescott, a southern lady in...