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Summer (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) Book

Charity Royall lives unhappily with her hard-drinking adoptive father in a village, until a visiting architect awakens her sexual passion and the hope for escape. Exploring Charity's relation to her father and her lover, this title delves into dark cultural territory: repressed sexuality, small-town prejudice, and, in subtle hints, incest.Read More

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  • Foyles

    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 (1916) 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 visiting architect awakens her sexual passion and the hope for escape. Exploring Charity's relation to her father and her lover, Wharton delves into dark cultural territory: repressed sexuality, small-town prejudice, and, in subtle hints, incest.

  • Blackwell

    One of Edith Wharton's personal favorites, Summer breaks, or stretches, many conventions of romandc love stories and in the process creates a new picture of female sexuality (Marilyn French, from the Introduction).Like Wharton's more famous...

  • Pickabook

    Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Ammons

  • 0140186794
  • 9780140186796
  • Edith Wharton
  • 7 October 1993
  • Penguin Classics
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 224
  • New Ed
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