• TRILOGY - Three of American author Edith Wharton’s books are in this Kindle Ethan Frome, House of Mirth & Summer Ethan Frome is set in a fictional New England town and involves an engineer who recounts his meeting with Ethan, a man with a history of thwarted dreams. The book was turned into a Hollywood film. House of Mirth Lily is born into a wealthy family who raised her to marry in the upper classes of New York society. But she is unmarried, and worse has gambling debts. Can she survive in the society that created her? Summer (1917) Summer traces the sexual awakening of Charity Royall, who is badly treated by the father of her child. About The Author American author Edith Wharton (1862 –1937) was nominated three times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her wit and view of America's upper classes made her a popular writer.