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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
ISBN-100553214225
ISBN-139780553214222
eBay Product ID (ePID)14488
Product Key Features
Book TitleSummer
Number of Pages224 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1993
TopicClassics, Literary, Romance / General, Romance / Historical / Victorian
GenreFiction
AuthorEdith Wharton
FormatMass Market
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight3.9 Oz
Item Length7.6 in
Item Width4.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal813/.52
SynopsisConsidered 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., 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 womanin 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.