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Summer Mass market paperback - 1981
by Edith Wharton
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- Good
- Paperback
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Details
- Title Summer
- Author Edith Wharton
- Binding Mass Market Paperback
- Edition 2nd THUS
- Condition Used - Good
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York
- Date 1981
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0425046109I3N00
- ISBN 9780425046104 / 0425046109
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Summary
Wharton called this companion novel to Ethan Frome, "hot Ethan." The heroine, Charity Royall (unlike Ethan Frome), is determined to experience passion and engages in a tempestuous love affair with Lucius Harney, a young man who has drifted into the Berkshires during his college vacation. Eventually, Charity becomes pregnant. The novel reflects the easing of Wharton's stern moral judgements, and is one of the first novels to deal honestly with a young woman's sexual awakening. The author stated of her own work, "I do not remember ever visualizing with more intensity the inner scene, or the creatures peopling it."
First line
A girl came out of lawyer Royall's house, at the end of the one street of North Dormer, and stood on the doorstep.