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    <body><![CDATA[This is a book about a girl's sexual awakening and the pure pleasure she derives from it. Of course, there are consequences involved, especially since this is a poor girl near the bottom of the social ladder in a small western New England town. <br/><br/>Summer is very different from The House of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7098085">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Edith Wharton now ranks up there with my favorite authors: Jane Austen, the Brontes, and Somerset Maugham.  I've absolutely loved every book of hers that I've read.  Summer is no exception.  The story is timeless--a young, naive girl becomes enchanted by a man who breezes into town and has an affair...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54834173">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first thing that struck me when I finished this book was how times have changed.  This was considered extremely provocative when it was published, yet Charity and Harney are only described kissing a few times, and are never described doing anything else. Charity strikes me as a very unhappy youn...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43225519">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Seemed appropriate to read this over Labor Day weekend, the last true summer weekend. However, this book seemed dark and a bit oppressive - it was hard to recall the 'summer' atmostphere other than by mentions of extreme heat. <br/><br/>I had a hard time relating to Charity Royall, or even seeing ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70470535">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="32924467">
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    <body><![CDATA[I just finished this as a book on tape, during my journeys back and forth between Rochester and Syracuse. Just like The House of Mirth (the only other Wharton I've read, if I recall), Wharton really catches the various subtle ways, as James Brown sang so well, &quot;it's a man's world.&quot; The old...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32924467">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon May 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am glad to have read this book.  I did not care for Lawyer Royall in the beginning and I am not sure I cared for him in the end except that by the end of the book, I understood his motives better.  I thought Lucius Harney was weak and that Charity was better off without him; only she did not know ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56674239">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book is touted as &quot;edith whartons most erotic book&quot;. the introduction blabs on and on about its eroticism, and how scandalous it is. so i have devised a little drinking game. i invite you - i entreat you - to prepare a shot glass with your favorite scotch or whiskey, and do a shot eve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61552781">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em><strong>…She had always thought of love as something confused and furtive, and he made it as bright and open as the summer air…</strong></em><br/><br/>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....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56503186">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ok, I love Edith Wharton, so much so that she is one of the authors I truly lament when I get to the end of their works, because there is no more to read (although in her case, as with many great authors, there is so much to re-read).  That being said, would it have KILLED her to write a story with ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64136157">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's some book that make you dislike a character but yet fall for her over time, that can make you never want to live in a forgotten little place like that while all the time making you love to feel the sun on your face, marvel at the butterflies and smell the flowers on the mountain. Very clever.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57874704">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Alexis, Annie and I visited The Mount together this summer. The tour guide recommended Summer, which I had not read before. I decided to buy it at the gift shop. As I was checking out, both Annie and Alexis said, separately, &quot;It is so depressing.&quot;<br/><br/>And depressing it was. Depressi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69558673">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book by Edith Wharton was certainly entertaining, but not quite as good as other works of hers that I have read.<br/><br/>If I could I would give it 3.5 stars, but I just didn't think it deserved a 4.<br/><br/>The story was descriptive and well-written. Edith Wharton does have a distinct an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58548083">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A twisted love story (the only kind I like). Not as well known as Wharton's other works, but the most memorable, to me. I read somewhere that it's one of her favorites of her own works as well. Girl works at a small town library and falls for the bookish architect research student visiting her borin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54094667">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book struck me as surprisingly modern. Its themes, while no longer earth-shatteringly novel, are universal and timeless. Similar romances are published for teenagers and for adults today. I don't consider it great literature: Summer is more of a feel-good-for-the-plot than a feel-good-for-havin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47004068">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was sitting on the bookshelves in the house we rented in Maine and since I'd been reading a lot more than I expected I'd be able to, I ran out of reading and plucked this off the shelf.  <br/><br/>This book was surprisingly fast paced for me.  And I liked the coming-of-age story of Chari...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32833876">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Edith Wharton: a queen of New England gothic literature despite the fact that the majority of her works take place in the circles of upper class New York society from where she came. Summer is like a sister companion to the more popular Ethan Frome (a sort of winter sibling to Summer), equally dark ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10651349">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So this is Edith's erotic novel, set to the tune of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5246.Ethan_Frome" title="Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton"> Ethan Frome</a>.  I am off to such a slow start, I had to set it aside for <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43944.Suite_Fran_aise_" title="Suite Française  by Irène Némirovsky">Suite Francaise</a>, but it is not even 200 pages so I am determined to fight through the New England bleakness.  <br/><br/>Yep, just finished <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43944.Suite_Fran_aise_" title="Suite Française  by Irène Némirovsky">Suite Francaise</a> and cannot face the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6897529">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As far as Edith Wharton novels go, I found this one more comparable to Ethan Frome than The House of Mirth...which is to say, it didn't have nearly enough sarcasm and witty banter for my taste. That said, I still enjoyed it immensely. Wharton's landscape descriptions were so vivid that they put me r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51583129">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[such a great book, wharton's one of my favorites but somehow i never read this.  i don't know if this book is considered a feminist work or not, but i think it's pretty candid about certain topics other edwardian novelists don't write much about...      <br/><br/>if you enjoy novellas about affair...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60822586">more...</a>]]></body>
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