A trio of incisive novellas includes <IT>Ethan Frome<RO>, about a New England farmer on an unproductive farm who must choose between his duty to care for his difficult, invalid wife and his love for her vivacious young cousin, as well as <IT>Summer<RO>, the story of a young woman's social and sexual awakening, and <IT>Bunner Sisters<RO>, in which two spinsters fall for the same unworthy man.