Description
In Edith Wharton’s Summer, Charity Royall—raised in modest circumstances and newly drawn into the orbit of wealth—finds herself out of place in a world that prizes polish over feeling. As she navigates the temptations and pressures of “big city” life, her guarded pride and hard-won honesty collide with the ambitions of those around her, setting the stage for a romance that is as intoxicating as it is consequential. With Wharton’s signature clarity and psychological acuity, the novel explores desire, class, and the quiet costs of self-deception, tracing how love can both illuminate and endanger a person’s sense of identity. Part social portrait and part intimate drama, Summer captures the fragile boundary between independence and surrender—leaving readers to ask what, in the end, a person is willing to lose for happiness.
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin Books, Limited
Published Jan 1, 2019
176 pages
ISBN: 9780241422243
paperback
Penguin Books, Limited
Published Jan 1, 2023
ISBN: 9780241630815
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Details
First Published
1917
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Summer by Edith Wharton.