Summer by Edith Wharton - ISBN: 9780140186796
Paperback
Forbidden passion ignites in a small town, shattering Charity’s world.

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  • Paperback

    224 pages

  • Release Date

    7 October 1993

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Summary

A tale of forbidden sexual passion and thwarted dreams played out against the lush, summer backdrop of the Massachusetts Berkshires, Edith Wharton called Summer her ‘hot Ethan.’ In their rural settings and their poor, uneducated protagonists, Summer and Ethan Frome represent a sharp departure from Wharton’s familiar depictions of the urban upper class.

Charity Royall lives unhappily with her hard-drinking adoptive father in an isolated village, until a visit…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780140186796
ISBN-10:0140186794
Author:Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Ammons
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:224
Release Date:7 October 1993
Weight:182g
Dimensions:197mm x 130mm x 15mm
Series:Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century
About The Author

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones on January 24, 1862, during the American Civil War. Wharton published her first short story in 1891; her first story collection, The Greater Inclination, in 1899; a novella called The Touchstone in 1900; and her first novel, a historical romance called The Valley of Decision, in 1902. The book that made Wharton famous was The House of Mirth, published in 1905. She died in 1937.

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