Summer

this book is touted as edith wharton s most erotic book the introduction blabs on and on about its eroticism, and how scandalous it is so i have devised a little drinking game i invite you i entreat you to prepare a shot glass with your favorite scotch or whiskey, and do a shot every time you start feeling a little hot from all the sexy good times i pretty much guarantee that shot glass will be untouched by the end of your readings this book is not erotic, even in the broadest, most mormonic sen [...]

Written in Wharton s inimitable style the prose in this novella is of course beautiful Every word and phrase lends itself to defining summer in a small country town It makes for beautiful reading.Charity is not a likeable character but I still felt sorry for her It was apparent from the outset that life would probably not go well for her, especially in one of Edith Wharton s novels which are not famous for happy endings The ending was pretty inevitable although it could have been worse.For a cla [...]

The summer version of Ethan Frome, but not quite as good.

This was another great read by Edith Wharton Although not as favored as Ethan Frome which it has been compared to, I loved it for the similarities of the complex characters and relationships This one was a sad sort of coming of age story but profound than a simple summer romance, and far from formulaic Apparently this was written based on Edith Wharton s own love affair which made it even interesting and left me wanting to read about her personal life Definitely recommended for fans of her bo [...]

I am so in love with the writing of Edith Wharton It makes me feel foolish to have had such a writer in full view and passed her over for so many years in favor of lesser ones.Edith Wharton s Summer is a different kind of novel than the others of hers that I have read, but not one bit less rich and enthralling The main character, Charity Royall, is unsure of her place in society, raised in the home of one of the most prominent men in a small town but always made aware that she comes from the mou [...]

Charity Royall I loved her, hated her, sympathized with her, and cried for her.She s a young woman at age 19, bored with her life in a small New England town Adopted by Lawyer Royall at a young age, she was saved from a life of poverty on the mountain One would think she would have been grateful, but not Charity She hates Mr Royall for what she sees as her imprisonment in small town drudgery, and also for his proposal of marriage Enter Lucius Harney, sophisticated man about town a young architec [...]

Summer is not my first Edith Wharton novel and I remember having already enjoyed, many years ago, The House of Mirth.The French edition in which I read Summer, had no preface or postface, only a backcover text, saying This is a novel that treats the female sexuality, seen as a powerful and constructive vital force This novel was very modern for the time, 1918 So I approached this novel, the way I like to without notice, without knowing the story or having read any review A direct dive into the u [...]

If you re looking for accessible classics, Edith Wharton s novellas are a good place to start Although I preferred Ethan Frome over this book, both of these novellas resonated strongly with me than Wharton s popular novels The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence.As in Frome , Summer is set in a small New England town and centers around the complex relationships of just a few main characters For me, this is where Wharton is at the top of her game Love is never easy or straightforward on Wha [...]

Summer lovin , had me a blastSummer lovin , happened so fast This one immediately made the jump onto my Characters I Want to Slap shelf when I was introduced to Charity Royall, a bored teen who is fortunate enough to have a job in a library, but she HATES it SLAP Charity is basically at the age when she hates EVERYTHING, particularly the older man who has rescued her from an uncertain fate up on the Mountain, and the gossipy, small town where she currently resides we all live in the same place, [...]

As much as I am fond of Edith Wharton s work, every time she writes about them poor peoples, I am weary Her Ethan Frome, describing woes of some peasants, wasn t authentic or credible enough, IMO, and neither is Summer.The main character in this novella, Charity Royall, was brought down from the Mountains in infancy and raised by a big wig lawyer in a tiny town of North Dormer Charity is smart, albeit not particularly educated, and holds a very peculiar position in town She is too good for the v [...]

Gotta love a book about a library Very short novel I think I finished it in about 6 hours A story of what it means to have pride and hopes only to have them crash and burn I related to Charity, I regret to say I hope it s not a spoiler to say to you that I became pregnant at the age of 17, which completely changed my life, my goals, my outlook I was rooting for Charity I was really hoping she wouldn t make certain decisions that, because of where she lived, how she was reared, the times, she tho [...]

Intensely creepy and sordid Although the novel s main plot is the romance between Charity Royall and her handsome young beau Lucius, I couldn t get past the whole incest thing view spoiler Charity ends up marrying her guardian, an alcoholic withered up older man the man who raised herwho once called her a whore in public hide spoiler There s also some extreme poverty herein which is almost painful to read about much worse than in Ethan Frome I m talking some near animalistic mountain people.It w [...]

3.5 When she was a young child, Charity Royall was rescued from the Mountain by Lawyer Royall, who is now her guardian Now she s eighteen, feeling bored in the small town of North Dormer, and itching to spread her wings When she meets Lucius Harney, an architect from the city who is visiting his cousin, her eyes are opened to possibilities she hasn t dared dream about Their mutual attraction garners some unwanted attention and results in gossip that Charity ignores until it is too late Wharton w [...]

I was going to give 4 stars but the ending deserves an extra star Reading about the way of life in a small town in the very early 1900 s is like reading about a different planet Charity was brought down from the mountain people to be raised in town The mountain people are almost like animals think Deliverance The town is average for a small town of the time no shops no theaters just some houses and a church It s so hard to think of people living this way Charity works part time in the library, a [...]

She had always thought of love as something confused and furtive, and he made it as bright and open as the summer air This is a story about a young girl from a very low social status who lives in a dull, dreary, sunless world and does not have many options to alter that situation This goes on until one summer a man enters her life, turns her world up side down, and sparks some light of hope of happiness Will her relationship with this man finally bring a brighter light to her dark world Or will [...]

I was told this book was dirty, and well, to be fair, I was told it was dirty for Wharton, which I suppose is true as far as it goes, but still oblique references to illicit trysts aren t exactly begging for the fap when you fade out after they hold hands Remind me this though next time I m sitting next to a leathery woman from Lowell on the bus and she s all Hey, what are YOU reading and I say Edith Wharton and she mishears me and thinks I said It s for work, and gives me a lecture about readin [...]

Edith Wharton once again manages to draw me into one of her stories a relatively simple novella, where much is at stake for the main character, Charity, who seems to be a mix of other of Wharton s heroines she s feisty, opinionated and isolated There is a lot to stand in a young woman s way There are the opinions of other people, as in Wharton s New York based novels, and there is the bleak, forbidding countryside or mountain, in this one as in Ethan Frome Above all, there are society s notions [...]

Do you ever find yourself giving something good a lower rating than something sort of formulaic and meh because the latter is fine for what it is, but the former is on a different scale with all the other Edith Whartons and you know that she can do better

I m really kicking myself for not having written this review sooner, because I seriously forgot pretty much everything about this bookwhich in itself is probably a sign that I found it so so Earlier this year I had the pleasure of reading Wharton s The Age of Innocence, which I completely loved, but Summer was so different that I had to keep checking the cover to make sure I was really reading an Edith Wharton novel Where The Age of Innocence was all glitz and glamour, Summer was a very subdued [...]

Edith Wharton was certainly a lady who could put words to a page that could definitely propel a reader quickly through a book It was certainly true with this novel Simply stated and told, it is a novel of the awakening of a young, unsure, woman, Charity, who seems held back in attitude by her questionable roots Born to an unwed mother in a mountain community of dirt and squalor, she is rescued by the Royall family after her father is convicted of manslaughter Raised within this household, Charit [...]

I have yet failed to read anything less than 4 stars from Wharton and this is no exception For most people Summer is about first love, sexual awakening and the constraints society put upon women during the era the book was written For me altogether different tones resonated in this short novel Despite the lush New England summer being the setting the novel was claustrophobic Charity leads a life in a small village and an attempts to escape it She also questions her own place in society as an ind [...]

As always, Wharton shows a brilliant ability to observe and articulate the strange little nuances of human motivation and behavior Additionally, this story paints a fascinating picture in which time and place are superimposed onto each other the stages of Charity Royall s life are tied to different parts of regional geography that, while physically close together, appear to be worlds apart And the season of summer becomes a microcosm for life itself, from birth to maturation to death.This isn t [...]

This is a book about a girl s sexual awakening and the pure pleasure she derives from it Of course, there are consequences involved, especially since this is a poor girl near the bottom of the social ladder in a small western New England town Summer is very different from The House of Mirth or The Age of Innocence where sex was either avoided, unfulfilled or occured offstage This book deals with both sexuality and class distinction and touches on incest as well While these topics are openly disc [...]

Descubr la novela Est o por casualidad, mientras buscaba una versi n de bolsillo de otra obra muy conocida de Edith Wharton nada m s y nada menos que La edad de la inocencia , entre las novedades de una librer a escondida en las callejuelas de la Barcelona m s desconocida.La novela parec a responder en parte a c mo fue descubierta unos parajes inh spitos, una poca pasada el libro deambula por esos parajes al tiempo que nos descubre a una protagonista, Charity, que vive atrapada en un mundo que s [...]

An intensely sad story about a naive young girl who follows her heart and suffers the consequences Charity Royall lives in a country village and longs for something to happen in her life view spoiler She is sweet but not totally innocent, aware of her power as a woman and not afraid to exercise it with the guardian who took her in as a child and who has long wanted her as his wife Charity is 18 the summer Lucius Harney comes to town, and the two become lovers But there will be no marriage, as Ha [...]

Such a short, sad tale.Charity Royall was brought down from the mountain into a town at the edges of civilization, northwestern Massachusetts I believe But the household seems not to have been a loving one The Summer of the title Charity is about 18 years old She is uneducated and unsophisticated and very very lonely.Wharton writes of Charity so that I felt great empathy for her Charity yearns for love and life as do most young women, but her hope in achieving it is small Summer brings a young a [...]

A classic, what can I say, a woman betrayed by a man and saved by another man as usual But it wasn t a boring read I m not very impressed by it, it was a three star

Lots of plot elements revealed here about Adam Bede and Summer I am far behind in my reviews, partly because GR has been so slow for me that it is barely manageable partly because I feel overwhelmed by the distance between the reviews I want to write and the reviews I have it in me right now to write Today GR is working a little faster don t get me wrong, I still have to wait a good twenty seconds for a page to load I am going to try to write something rather than nothing.Some folks see Summer a [...]

Edith Wharton s novella, Summer 1917 , while still very Ethan Frome ish, is the antithesis of the frosty and wintry characters and landscape of Ethan Frome Summer is charged with an erotic undercurrent that runs through it The novella starts in the Spring with young Charity Royall daydreaming in a meadow full of wildflowers, buzzing insects, birds singing, and the sap coursing through the branches of the trees with new leaves unfurling Her world has just emerged from the cold grip of winter, jus [...]

I loved this book so much than I thought I would It has all of the compelling romance and drama that one would expect from a short novella about the sexual coming of age of a young woman in a small New England town and, admittedly, that s what kept me turning the pages However, Wharton is no writer of silly, frivolous romances The story of Charity Royall is also one of complex class structures, gender limitations, the discovery of one s identity, and missed opportunities Charity Royall, origina [...]