Summer

Author: Edith Wharton

A tale of forbidden sexual passion and thwarted dreams played out against the lush, summer backdrop of the Massachusetts Berkshires.Edith Wharton called Summer her ‘hot Ethan’. In their rural settings and their poor, uneducated protagonists, Summer (1916) and Ethan Frome represent a sharp departure from Wharton’s familiar depictions of the urban upper class. Charity Royall….Read More

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