Availability:In StockContributor:Edith WhartonSeries:Bantam ClassicsPublish date:1993-07-01Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bantam ClassicsISBN-13:9780553214222ISBN-10:553214225UPC:9780553214222Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Literary, RomanceBook Topic:HistoricalSize:6.87 x 4.20 x 0.53 inchesWeight:0.2712Product ID:SC1C5EVGBP
Summer
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...
Series: Bantam Classics
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bantam ClassicsISBN-13:9780553214222ISBN-10:553214225UPC:9780553214222Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Literary, RomanceBook Topic:HistoricalSize:6.87 x 4.20 x 0.53 inchesWeight:0.2712Product ID:SC1C5EVGBP
The upper stratum of New York society into which Edith Wharton was born in 1862 provided her with an abundance of material as a novelist but did not encourage her growth as an artist. Educated by tutors and governesses, she was raised for only one career: marriage. But her marriage, in 1885, to Edward Wharton was an emotional disappointment, if not a disaster. She suffered the first of a series...
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