| Summer Contributor(s): French, Marilyn (Introduction by), Wharton, Edith (Author) |
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ISBN: 0684842580 ISBN-13: 9780684842585 Publisher: Scribner Book Company OUR PRICE: $17.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1998 Annotation: A new Englander of humble origins, Charity Royall is swept into a torrid love affair with an artistically inclined young man from New York City, but her dreams of a future with him are thwarted. A bold, provocative work, SUMMER was an immediate sensation when first published in 1917 and still stands as one of Wharton's greatest achievements. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 98015766 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.3" W x 7.9" (0.45 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - New England |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Summer, Edith Wharton wrote to Gaillard Lapsley, is known to its author and her familars as the Hot Ethan. One of the first American novels to deal frankly with a young woman's sexual awakening, it was a publishing sensation when it appeared in 1917, praised by Joseph Conrad, Howard Sturgis, and Percy Lubbock, and favorably compared to Madame Bovary. Like its predecessor, Ethan Frome, it is set in the Berkshires, but the season is summer and the story is that of Charity Royall, a New Englander of humble origins -- passionate, forthright, and proud -- and her torrid affair with Lucius Harney, an artistically inclined young man from the city. A novel that breaks, or stretches, many conventions of women's romantic love stories and in the process creates a new picture of female sexuality, as Marilyn French writes in her introduction, Summer is a clamorous and ecstatic affirmation of the joy of sexual love no matter what it costs. Bold in conception, rich in imagery, and provocative by implication, it was one of Edith Wharton's personal favorites, and stands as one of her greatest novelistic achievement |
Contributor Bio(s): Wharton, Edith: - Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was an American novelist--the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Age of Innocence in 1921--as well as a short story writer, playwright, designer, reporter, and poet. Born into one of New York's elite families, she drew upon her knowledge of upper class aristocracy to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. |