Books with title Summer's End

Large and beautiful color illustrations on every page of this book—one in a brand-new four-volume series—will appeal especially to early grades boys and girls. Kids will also love having the simply written descriptive text read to them as they gaze at the charming pictures—and as they get just a little older, they’ll be able to read the text by themselves! Both words and pictures evoke the moods and activities of summer, and the illustrations show children at seasonal play

While recounting highlights of one of his summer vacations, the author gives hints on how you can make the most of yours. Go with some purpose, he urges, to visit some particular spot, see some bird, find some flower, or catch some fish! If you are short on ideas, chapters on Things to See, Things to Do, and Things to Hear are chock-full of enticing suggestions of what to focus on during your tramps in fields and woods. A clarion call to venture outside in summer with all your senses alert, wherever you go.

Oh, the wonderful things that summer brings—swimming at the beach, making sand castles, catching butterflies, eating watermelon, toasting marshmallows, watching fireworks! The simple, timeless activities featured in this abridged, board-book edition of the classic Beginner Book Summer make it perfect to share at the shore (or anyplace else!) with young and old alike.

In the summer of 1965, teenaged cousins Grace, Dolly and Theo are on their grandparents’ farm dealing with the fact that their family has been broken apart by the Vietnam War. Dolly’s brother went to Vietnam a few months earlier, and Theo’s brother deserted to Canada. Now Grace’s brother Collin’s number is up, and he doesn’t believe in the war. Their dad has thrown him out of the house, and Grace doesn’t know who to believe is right. The idyllic summer days Grace is used to enjoying are now marred by uncertainty and tension. What will become of Collin? And what will be the repercussions if Grace goes to his aid?

Vanaja David, a post graduate in English Literature is a name to reckon with in the field of Tamil fiction. Her maiden novel, 'Silaiyai sethukkiya uligal' has been prescribed for college students for fiction study. Her short stories have appeared in popular Tamil weeklies like, Kalki and Rani. The vivid descriptions, we find in her work about children and their feelings and activities have won wide acclaim. She has a remarkable understanding of the child's mind. Many youngsters gratefully acknowledge that her book entitled, 'Spoken English-A Read Aloud Book'( Shivam publication, Chennai) has helped them to improve their communication skill. She lives in Bangalore with her husband. Her two sons are working in the USA and in Shanghai respectively.

* Beautifully illustrated with atmospheric paintings by renowned artists, Summer is an absorbing tale about the sexual awakening of its protagonist, Charity Royall, and her cruel treatment by the father of her child, and shares many plot similarities with Wharton's better-known novel, Ethan Frome. Only moderately well received when originally published, Summer has had a resurgence in critical popularity since the 1960s.* Just as accessible and enjoyable for today's readers as it would have been when first published, the novel is one of the great works of American literature and continues to be widely read throughout the world.* This meticulous digital edition from Heritage Illustrated Publishing is a faithful reproduction of the original text and is enhanced with images of classic works of art carefully selected by our team of professional editors.

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 the city. Wharton broke the conventions of women’s romantic fiction by making Charity a thoroughly independent modern woman—in touch with her emotions and sexuality, yet kept from love and the larger world she craves by the overwhelming pressures of heredity and society.Praised for its realism and honesty by such writers as Joseph Conrad and Henry James and compared to Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Summer remains as fresh and powerful a novel today as when it was first written.

Eighteen-year–old Charity Royall is bored with life in the small town of North Dormer. She is a librarian and ward of North Dormer’s premier citizen, Lawyer Royall. While working at the library, Charity meets visiting architect Lucius Harney. The novel details the sexual awakening of Charity Royall, and shares many plot similarities with Wharton's better known novel, Ethan Frome