Wharton called this companion novel to Ethan Frome, "hot Ethan." The heroine, Charity Royall (unlike Ethan Frome), is determined to experience passion and engages in a tempestuous love affair with Lucius Harney, a young man who has drifted into the Berkshires during his college vacation. Eventually,
Summer: A Novel
โ Scribed by Edith Wharton
- Publisher
- Project Gutenberg
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 108 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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