Summer - (Bantam Classics) by Edith Wharton (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>One of Wharton's first novels to deal frankly with a young woman's sexual awakening, Summer created a sensation when it was published in 1917. Praised for its realism and candor by such writers as Joseph Conrad and Henry James, it is now considered a classic of American and women's literature.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Considered by some to be her finest work, Edith Wharton's <b>Summer</b> 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. <p/><b>Summer</b> 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. <p/>Praised for its realism and honesty by such writers as Joseph Conrad and Henry James and compared to Flaubert's <b>Madame Bovary</b><i>, </i><b>Summer</b> remains as fresh and powerful a novel today as when it was first written.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>The upper stratum of New York society into which Edith Wharton was born in 1862 provided her with an abundance of material as a novelist but did not encourage her growth as an artist. Educated by tutors and governesses, she was raised for only one career: marriage. But her marriage, in 1885, to Edward Wharton was an emotional disappointment, if not a disaster. She suffered the first of a series of nervous breakdowns in 1894. In spite of the strain of her marriage, or perhaps because of it, she began to write fiction and published her first story in 1889. <p/>Her first published book was a guide to interior decorating, but this was followed by several novels and story collections. They were written while the Whartons lived in Newport and New York, traveled in Europe, and built their grand home, The Mount, in Lenox, Massachusetts. In Europe, she met Henry James, who became her good friend, traveling companion, and the sternest but most careful critic of her fiction. <b>The House of Mirth </b>(1905) was both a resounding critical success and a bestseller, as was <b>Ethan Frome </b>(1911). In 1913 the Whartons were divorced, and Edith took up permanent residence in France. Her subject, however, remained America, especially the moneyed New York of her youth. Her great satiric novel, <b>The Custom of the Country </b>was published in 1913 and <b>The Age of Innocence</b> won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1921. <p/>In her later years, she enjoyed the admiration of a new generation of writers, including Sinclair Lewis and F. Scott Fitzgerald. In all, she wrote some thirty books, including an autobiography. <i> A Backwards Glance</i> (1934). She died at her villa near Paris in 1937.
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