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Charity Royall is a young girl who was taken in as a child from an impoverished home on the mountain by a lawyer and his wife. She grows up in a small town but longs to get away. She takes a job as the town librarian; it is not a job that satisfies her. Then she meets Lucius Harney, an architect visiting the town from the city, and she is swept up in a romance with him.
The conventions of this story have become fodder for endless soap operas and paperback novels, but the story in Wharton's hands ...more
The conventions of this story have become fodder for endless soap operas and paperback novels, but the story in Wharton's hands ...more
Summer wasn’t quite on the same level as The House of Mirth or The Custom of the Country for me, but it’s still a compelling and surprising read. It’s one of Wharton’s only rural novels and deals frankly with sexuality, class, and the limited choices available to women, which made it pretty controversial at the time of publication. The story follows Charity Royall, a restless young woman who falls for a charming outsider to escape her limited home life and impoverished past. I really admired how
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It's been a long haul but I finally finished this on the Kindle on my phone. I actually quite enjoyed this book - it's much different than Wharton's other works and interesting if initially slow (even for Wharton) and hard to get through.
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Aug 29, 2017
Lisa of Hopewell
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