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  • Published: 15 May 2008
  • ISBN: 9780553214222
  • Imprint: Bantam Dell
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $17.99

Summer





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Considered by some to be her finest work, Edith Wharton’s Summer created a sensation when first published in 1917, as it was one of the first novels to deal honestly with a young woman’s sexual awakening.

Summer is the story of Charity Royall, a child of mountain moonshiners adopted by a family in a poor New England town, who has a passionate love affair with Lucius Harney, an educated man from the city. Wharton broke the conventions of women’s romantic fiction by making Charity a thoroughly independent modern woman—in touch with her emotions and sexuality, yet kept from love and the larger world she craves by the overwhelming pressures of heredity and society.

Praised for its realism and honesty by such writers as Joseph Conrad and Henry James and compared to Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Summer remains as fresh and powerful a novel today as when it was first written.

  • Published: 15 May 2008
  • ISBN: 9780553214222
  • Imprint: Bantam Dell
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $17.99

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Emma
Persuasion
The Black Tulip
The Lady of the Camellias
On Sparta
Love
Annals
Military Dispatches

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