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  • Summer

    Edith Wharton

    eBook (, Aug. 4, 2014)
    This edition includes 10 illustrations. Edith Wharton, whose work depicting upper-class society in Victorian-era America earned her a Pulitzer in 1920 for The Age of Innocence, saw her eleventh novel, Summer, published in 1917. Set in New England and focusing on Charity Royall, the ward of her town’s most prominent citizen, Summer is filled with first romance and a love which must end as the year’s warmest months turn to autumn. As provocative as it is realistic in the rendering of its characters, who are by turns bold, cruel and passionate, Summer’s rural heroine struggles no less than her wealthy, cosmopolitan contemporaries.
  • Summer

    Edith Wharton

    eBook (, Aug. 4, 2014)
    This edition includes 10 illustrations. Edith Wharton, whose work depicting upper-class society in Victorian-era America earned her a Pulitzer in 1920 for The Age of Innocence, saw her eleventh novel, Summer, published in 1917. Set in New England and focusing on Charity Royall, the ward of her town’s most prominent citizen, Summer is filled with first romance and a love which must end as the year’s warmest months turn to autumn. As provocative as it is realistic in the rendering of its characters, who are by turns bold, cruel and passionate, Summer’s rural heroine struggles no less than her wealthy, cosmopolitan contemporaries.
  • Summer

    Edith Wharton

    eBook (, Aug. 4, 2014)
    This edition includes 10 illustrations. Edith Wharton, whose work depicting upper-class society in Victorian-era America earned her a Pulitzer in 1920 for The Age of Innocence, saw her eleventh novel, Summer, published in 1917. Set in New England and focusing on Charity Royall, the ward of her town’s most prominent citizen, Summer is filled with first romance and a love which must end as the year’s warmest months turn to autumn. As provocative as it is realistic in the rendering of its characters, who are by turns bold, cruel and passionate, Summer’s rural heroine struggles no less than her wealthy, cosmopolitan contemporaries.
  • Summer

    Edith Wharton

    Paperback (Independently published, Jan. 31, 2020)
    A new, beautifully laid-out edition of Edith Wharton's 1917 novel.
  • Summer

    Edith Wharton

    eBook (, Aug. 4, 2014)
    This edition includes 10 illustrations. Edith Wharton, whose work depicting upper-class society in Victorian-era America earned her a Pulitzer in 1920 for The Age of Innocence, saw her eleventh novel, Summer, published in 1917. Set in New England and focusing on Charity Royall, the ward of her town’s most prominent citizen, Summer is filled with first romance and a love which must end as the year’s warmest months turn to autumn. As provocative as it is realistic in the rendering of its characters, who are by turns bold, cruel and passionate, Summer’s rural heroine struggles no less than her wealthy, cosmopolitan contemporaries.
  • Summer

    Edith Wharton

    eBook (, Aug. 4, 2014)
    This edition includes 10 illustrations. Edith Wharton, whose work depicting upper-class society in Victorian-era America earned her a Pulitzer in 1920 for The Age of Innocence, saw her eleventh novel, Summer, published in 1917. Set in New England and focusing on Charity Royall, the ward of her town’s most prominent citizen, Summer is filled with first romance and a love which must end as the year’s warmest months turn to autumn. As provocative as it is realistic in the rendering of its characters, who are by turns bold, cruel and passionate, Summer’s rural heroine struggles no less than her wealthy, cosmopolitan contemporaries.
  • Summer

    Edith Wharton

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Aug. 25, 2008)
    Summer is a novel by Edith Wharton. The story is one of only two novels by Wharton to be set in New England; Wharton was best known for her portrayals of upper class New York society. The novel details the sexual awakening of its protagonist, Charity Royall, and her cruel treatment by the father of her child, and shares many plot similarities with another Wharton novel, "Ethan Frome". Only moderately well-received when originally published, "Summer" has had a resurgence in critical popularity since the 1960s.
  • Summer

    Edith Wharton

    eBook (, Aug. 4, 2014)
    This edition includes 10 illustrations. Edith Wharton, whose work depicting upper-class society in Victorian-era America earned her a Pulitzer in 1920 for The Age of Innocence, saw her eleventh novel, Summer, published in 1917. Set in New England and focusing on Charity Royall, the ward of her town’s most prominent citizen, Summer is filled with first romance and a love which must end as the year’s warmest months turn to autumn. As provocative as it is realistic in the rendering of its characters, who are by turns bold, cruel and passionate, Summer’s rural heroine struggles no less than her wealthy, cosmopolitan contemporaries.
  • Summer

    Edith Wharton

    eBook (, Aug. 4, 2014)
    This edition includes 10 illustrations. Edith Wharton, whose work depicting upper-class society in Victorian-era America earned her a Pulitzer in 1920 for The Age of Innocence, saw her eleventh novel, Summer, published in 1917. Set in New England and focusing on Charity Royall, the ward of her town’s most prominent citizen, Summer is filled with first romance and a love which must end as the year’s warmest months turn to autumn. As provocative as it is realistic in the rendering of its characters, who are by turns bold, cruel and passionate, Summer’s rural heroine struggles no less than her wealthy, cosmopolitan contemporaries.
  • Summer

    Edith Wharton

    eBook (, Aug. 4, 2014)
    This edition includes 10 illustrations. Edith Wharton, whose work depicting upper-class society in Victorian-era America earned her a Pulitzer in 1920 for The Age of Innocence, saw her eleventh novel, Summer, published in 1917. Set in New England and focusing on Charity Royall, the ward of her town’s most prominent citizen, Summer is filled with first romance and a love which must end as the year’s warmest months turn to autumn. As provocative as it is realistic in the rendering of its characters, who are by turns bold, cruel and passionate, Summer’s rural heroine struggles no less than her wealthy, cosmopolitan contemporaries.
  • Summer

    Edith Wharton

    eBook (, Aug. 4, 2014)
    This edition includes 10 illustrations. Edith Wharton, whose work depicting upper-class society in Victorian-era America earned her a Pulitzer in 1920 for The Age of Innocence, saw her eleventh novel, Summer, published in 1917. Set in New England and focusing on Charity Royall, the ward of her town’s most prominent citizen, Summer is filled with first romance and a love which must end as the year’s warmest months turn to autumn. As provocative as it is realistic in the rendering of its characters, who are by turns bold, cruel and passionate, Summer’s rural heroine struggles no less than her wealthy, cosmopolitan contemporaries.
  • Summer

    Edith Wharton

    eBook (Heritage Books, Sept. 27, 2019)
    Summer is a novel by Edith Wharton, which was published in 1917 by Charles Scribner's Sons. While most novels by Edith Wharton dealt with New York's upper-class society, this is one of two novels by Wharton that were set in New England.Edith Jones came of a distinguished and long-established New York family. She was educated by private tutors and governesses at home and in Europe, where the family resided for six years after the American Civil War, and she read voraciously. She made her debut in society in 1879 and married Edward Wharton, a wealthy Boston banker, in 1885.Although she had had a book of her own poems privately printed when she was 16, it was not until after several years of married life that Wharton began to write in earnest. Her major literary model was Henry James, whom she knew, and her work reveals James’s concern for artistic form and ethical issues. She contributed a few poems and stories to Harper’s, Scribner’s, and other magazines in the 1890s, and in 1897, after overseeing the remodeling of a house in Newport, Rhode Island, she collaborated with the architect Ogden Codman, Jr., on The Decoration of Houses. Her next books, The Greater Inclination (1899) and Crucial Instances (1901), were collections of stories.Wharton’s first novel, The Valley of Decision, was published in 1902. The House of Mirth (1905) was a novel of manners that analyzed the stratified society in which she had been reared and its reaction to social change. The book won her critical acclaim and a wide audience. In the next two decades—before the quality of her work began to decline under the demands of writing for women’s magazines—she wrote such novels as The Reef (1912), The Custom of the Country (1913), Summer (1917), and The Age of Innocence (1920), which won a Pulitzer Prize.