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Summer

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780241422243

  • Length: 176  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 10mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 134g

  • RRP: £8.99

Summer

A story of forbidden sexual passion and thwarted dreams set against the backdrop of a lush summer in rural Massachusetts

Seventeen-year-old Charity Royall is desperate to escape life with her hard-drinking adoptive father. Their isolated village stifles her, and his behaviour increasingly disturbs her. When a young city architect visits for the summer, it offers Charity the chance to break free. But as they embark on an intense affair, will it bring her another kind of trap? Regarded by Edith Wharton as among her best novels, Summer caused a sensation in 1917 with its honest depiction of a young woman overturning the rules of her day and attempting to live on her own terms.

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780241422243

  • Length: 176  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 10mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 134g

  • RRP: £8.99

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About the Author

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones on 24th January 1862, during the American Civil War. Wharton published her first short story in 1891; her first story collection, The Greater Inclination, in 1899; a novella called The Touchstone in 1900; and her first novel, The Valley of Decision, in 1902. Her most famous work, The House of Mirth, was published in 1905. She died in 1937.

Edith Wharton

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