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Summer
Summer
Author: Edith Wharton
SINCE her reinstatement in Miss Hatchard's favour Charity had not dared to curtail by a moment her hours of attendance at the library. She even made a point of arriving before the time, and showed a laudable indignation when the youngest Targatt girl, who had been engaged to help in the cleaning and rearranging of the books, came trailing in lat...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780425046104
ISBN-10: 0425046109
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Publisher: Penguin Putnam~mass
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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lawmom avatar reviewed Summer on
From the back of the book: Considered Edith Wharton's richest novel, and one of the first to deal with a woman's sexual awakening, SUMMER is the story of Charity Royall and her first summer as a woman.
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My personal favorite book by Edith Wharton. The story of Charity Royall, a young woman from a small New England town. Her story takes place over the course of one summer, and her meeting with the young man who will change her life forever. Wharton captures perfectly Charity's inexperience; determination; beauty and longing.
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I prefer this book over Ethan Frome. It has been compared to Kate Chopin's The Awakening. It really captures a woman's sexual awakening very entrancing novel. One of my favorite required reads for a women's lit class I took in college.
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Nice and easy read. Classical and romantic/dramatic.
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"Beautifully sensuous, "Summer" is named for that never-to-be-repeated period when sexual love seems to be 'everything'...[when] there can be only one first romance - one beginning, one sexual initiation with its exhilarating illusion of unending ecstasy and unlimited opportunity...

"Summer" is a work of fiction that deals frankly with feminine sexuality as a powerful, shaping life-force [and creates] a complex and honest portrait of a girl's problems as she confronts maturity...
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This novel is a companion-piece to Ethan Frome and focuses on the rebelling of Charity Royall against a cheerless New England hill-town. Edith Wharton's novels are truly an American treasure.


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