false 1346571 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg 269528 66 3140028 book 1917 Eté total:1442|5:276|4:540|3:462|2:131|1:33| 1442 5221 1970 131 16 3.68 39652 3569 7098085 441186 269528 0486452387 9780486452388 97 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173296562m/269528.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173296562s/269528.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/269528.Summer 3.62 1135 Summer created a sensation upon its 1917 publication. The Pulitzer Prize winning author of Ethan Frome shattered the standards of conventional love stories with candor and realism. Nearly a century later, this tale remains fresh and relevant.
</div>]]> 1917 4 3 false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 01 12:49:44 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 01 18:26:50 -0700 2007
Summer is very different from The House of ...more...]]> 54834173 185680 1346580 0684842580 9780684842585 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182894540m/1346580.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182894540s/1346580.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1346580.Summer 3.74 19 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 achievements.

]]> 1917 4 0 true Tue Jul 27 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Sun May 03 17:58:33 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 18:35:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> 43225519 159833 269528 0486452387 9780486452388 97 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173296562m/269528.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173296562s/269528.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/269528.Summer 3.62 1442 Summer created a sensation upon its 1917 publication. The Pulitzer Prize winning author of Ethan Frome shattered the standards of conventional love stories with candor and realism. Nearly a century later, this tale remains fresh and relevant.
</div>]]> 1917 4 0 false Thu Jan 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 06:27:49 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 13:07:48 -0800 2009 more...]]> 70470535 1727075 269528 0486452387 9780486452388 97 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173296562m/269528.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173296562s/269528.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/269528.Summer 3.62 1442 Summer created a sensation upon its 1917 publication. The Pulitzer Prize winning author of Ethan Frome shattered the standards of conventional love stories with candor and realism. Nearly a century later, this tale remains fresh and relevant.
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I had a hard time relating to Charity Royall, or even seeing ...more...]]> 32924467 1507063 269528 0486452387 9780486452388 97 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173296562m/269528.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173296562s/269528.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/269528.Summer 3.62 1442 Summer created a sensation upon its 1917 publication. The Pulitzer Prize winning author of Ethan Frome shattered the standards of conventional love stories with candor and realism. Nearly a century later, this tale remains fresh and relevant.
</div>]]> 1917 4 2 false Mon Sep 15 10:15:24 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 15 10:34:34 -0700 2008 more...]]> 56674239 1990904 269528 0486452387 9780486452388 97 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173296562m/269528.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173296562s/269528.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/269528.Summer 3.62 1442 Summer created a sensation upon its 1917 publication. The Pulitzer Prize winning author of Ethan Frome shattered the standards of conventional love stories with candor and realism. Nearly a century later, this tale remains fresh and relevant.
</div>]]> 1917 4 1 true Mon May 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 17:12:46 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 14:41:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 61552781 45618 228592 0451525663 9780451525666 6 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172888879m/228592.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172888879s/228592.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/228592.Summer 3.46 39 1917 3 14 false Mon Jun 29 16:02:54 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 20:02:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 56503186 260861 297853 0140186794 9780140186796 6 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173496179m/297853.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173496179s/297853.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/297853.Summer 3.65 49 1917 4 6 false Thu Jun 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 12:01:30 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 10:01:59 -0700 2009 …She had always thought of love as something confused and furtive, and he made it as bright and open as the summer air…

This is a story about a young girl from a very low social status who lives in a dull, dreary, 'sunless' world and does not have many options to alter that situation....more...]]> 64136157 16755 269528 0486452387 9780486452388 97 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173296562m/269528.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173296562s/269528.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/269528.Summer 3.62 1442 Summer created a sensation upon its 1917 publication. The Pulitzer Prize winning author of Ethan Frome shattered the standards of conventional love stories with candor and realism. Nearly a century later, this tale remains fresh and relevant.
</div>]]> 1917 3 0 false Sun Jul 19 15:52:06 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 19 15:55:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 57874704 1253478 297853 0140186794 9780140186796 6 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173496179m/297853.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173496179s/297853.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/297853.Summer 3.62 1442 1917 4 1 false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 30 13:41:20 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 10:20:25 -0700 2009 ...more...]]> 69558673 317173 269528 0486452387 9780486452388 97 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173296562m/269528.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173296562s/269528.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/269528.Summer 3.62 1442 Summer created a sensation upon its 1917 publication. The Pulitzer Prize winning author of Ethan Frome shattered the standards of conventional love stories with candor and realism. Nearly a century later, this tale remains fresh and relevant.
</div>]]> 1917 4 0 false Mon Aug 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 08:41:03 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 09:25:00 -0700 2009
And depressing it was. Depressi...more...]]> 59106198 1204629 1346579 0553214225 9780553214222 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182894540m/1346579.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182894540s/1346579.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1346579.Summer 3.77 13 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.]]> 1917 4 0 false Fri Jun 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 21:43:08 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 12:10:09 -0700 2009
Charity Royall is full of imperfections. In fact, she's a walking imperfection.

All in all, it's a story of a young girl and a first love. It's nothing a million g...more...]]> 58548083 1001889 228592 0451525663 9780451525666 6 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172888879m/228592.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172888879s/228592.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/228592.Summer 3.62 1442 1917 3 0 false Thu Jun 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 10:22:58 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 10:48:23 -0700 2009
If I could I would give it 3.5 stars, but I just didn't think it deserved a 4.

The story was descriptive and well-written. Edith Wharton does have a distinct an...more...]]> 54094667 2258576 269528 0486452387 9780486452388 97 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173296562m/269528.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173296562s/269528.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/269528.Summer 3.62 1442 Summer created a sensation upon its 1917 publication. The Pulitzer Prize winning author of Ethan Frome shattered the standards of conventional love stories with candor and realism. Nearly a century later, this tale remains fresh and relevant.
</div>]]> 1917 5 1 false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 26 23:51:45 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 00:41:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 80951847 82944 269528 0486452387 9780486452388 97 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173296562m/269528.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173296562s/269528.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/269528.Summer 3.62 1442 Summer created a sensation upon its 1917 publication. The Pulitzer Prize winning author of Ethan Frome shattered the standards of conventional love stories with candor and realism. Nearly a century later, this tale remains fresh and relevant.
</div>]]> 1917 4 0 false Sat Dec 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 14 06:28:55 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 14 06:34:32 -0800 2009 Summer follows the emotional and sexual flowering of a young woman, but as with House of Mirth, her possibilities are constrained by a very rigid social structure. Unlike the extreme specificity of time and p...more...]]> 47004068 2055438 269528 0486452387 9780486452388 97 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173296562m/269528.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173296562s/269528.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/269528.Summer 3.62 1442 Summer created a sensation upon its 1917 publication. The Pulitzer Prize winning author of Ethan Frome shattered the standards of conventional love stories with candor and realism. Nearly a century later, this tale remains fresh and relevant.
</div>]]> 1917 5 0 false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Feb 20 18:24:41 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 11:27:03 -0800 2009 more...]]> 32833876 849321 269528 0486452387 9780486452388 97 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173296562m/269528.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173296562s/269528.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/269528.Summer 3.62 1442 Summer created a sensation upon its 1917 publication. The Pulitzer Prize winning author of Ethan Frome shattered the standards of conventional love stories with candor and realism. Nearly a century later, this tale remains fresh and relevant.
</div>]]> 1917 3 0 true Sun Sep 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 14 06:49:28 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 10 13:01:31 -0700 2009
This book was surprisingly fast paced for me. And I liked the coming-of-age story of Chari...more...]]> 10651349 670772 269528 0486452387 9780486452388 97 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173296562m/269528.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173296562s/269528.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/269528.Summer 3.62 1442 Summer created a sensation upon its 1917 publication. The Pulitzer Prize winning author of Ethan Frome shattered the standards of conventional love stories with candor and realism. Nearly a century later, this tale remains fresh and relevant.
</div>]]> 1917 4 2 false Tue Dec 18 16:44:46 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 18 17:17:13 -0800 2007 more...]]> 6897529 411786 269528 0486452387 9780486452388 97 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173296562m/269528.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173296562s/269528.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/269528.Summer 3.62 1442 Summer created a sensation upon its 1917 publication. The Pulitzer Prize winning author of Ethan Frome shattered the standards of conventional love stories with candor and realism. Nearly a century later, this tale remains fresh and relevant.
</div>]]> 1917 5 0 false Fri Apr 03 05:31:07 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 27 11:45:09 -0700 2007 Fri Apr 03 05:31:07 -0700 2009 Ethan Frome. I am off to such a slow start, I had to set it aside for Suite Francaise, but it is not even 200 pages so I am determined to fight through the New England bleakness.

Yep, just finished Suite Francaise and cannot face the...more...]]> 51583129 46761 269528 0486452387 9780486452388 97 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173296562m/269528.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173296562s/269528.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/269528.Summer 3.62 1442 Summer created a sensation upon its 1917 publication. The Pulitzer Prize winning author of Ethan Frome shattered the standards of conventional love stories with candor and realism. Nearly a century later, this tale remains fresh and relevant.
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