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Summer Paperback - 1993

by Wharton, Edith / Candace Waid, intro

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NY : Signet. 1993. vg-. Paperback. ISBN:0451525663 196 pages; pages toned; binding solid .
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  • Title Summer
  • Author Wharton, Edith / Candace Waid, intro
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition Used - vg-
  • Pages 216
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Signet, NY
  • Date 1993
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 177978
  • ISBN 9780451525666 / 0451525663
  • Weight 0.24 lbs (0.11 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.88 x 4.17 x 0.61 in (17.48 x 10.59 x 1.55 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Love stories, Berkshire Hills (Mass.)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 92064137
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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.

About the author

The upper stratum of New York society into which Edith Wharton was born in 1862 provided her with an abundance of material as a novelist but did not encourage her growth as an artist. Educated by tutors and governesses, she was raised for only one career: marriage. But her marriage, in 1885, to Edward Wharton was an emotional disappointment, if not a disaster. She suffered the first of a series of nervous breakdowns in 1894. In spite of the strain of her marriage, or perhaps because of it, she began to write fiction and published her first story in 1889.Her first published book was a guide to interior decorating, but this was followed by several novels and story collections. They were written while the Whartons lived in Newport and New York, traveled in Europe, and built their grand home, the Mount, in Lenox, Massachusetts. In Europe, she met Henry James, who became her good friend, traveling companion, and the sternest but most careful critic of her fiction. The House of Mirth (1905) was both a resounding critical success and a bestseller, as was Ethan Frome (1911). In 1913 the Whartons were divorced, and Edith took up permanent residence in France. Her subject, however, remained America, especially the moneyed New York of her youth. Her great satiric novel, The Custom of the Country was published in 1913 and The Age of Innocence won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1921.In her later years, she enjoyed the admiration of a new generation of writers, including Sinclair Lewis and F. Scott Fitzgerald. In all, she wrote some 30 books, including an autobiography, A Backward Glance (1934). She died at her villa near Paris in 1937.

Candace Waid, PhD, is professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Some of Professor Waid's central interests include American literature and culture, African American literature, and Southern literature. Professor Waid's books include Edith Wharton's Letters from the Underworld: Fictions of Women and Writing and The Signifying Eye: Seeing Faulkner's Art.