[Gutenberg 166] • Summer
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- Authors
- Wharton, Edith
- Tags
- love stories , berkshire hills (mass.) -- fiction , romance , young women -- fiction , classics , guardian and ward -- fiction , man-woman relationships -- fiction
- Date
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.14 MB
- Lang
- en
How is this book unique?
Illustrations included
Original & Unabridged Edition
One of the best books to read
Classic historical fiction books
Extremely well formatted
Summer is a novel by Edith Wharton published in 1917 by Charles Scribner's Sons. The story is one of only two novels to be set in New England by Wharton, who was best known for her portrayals of upper-class New York society. The novel details the sexual awakening of its protagonist, Charity Royall, and her cruel treatment by the father of her child, and shares many plot similarities with Wharton's better-known novel, Ethan Frome. Only moderately well received when originally published, Summer has had a resurgence in critical popularity since the 1960s. Eighteen-year–old Charity Royall is bored with life in the small town of North Dormer. She is a librarian and ward of North Dormer’s premier citizen, Lawyer Royall. While working at the library, Charity meets visiting architect Lucius Harney.