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Summer

by Edith Wharton

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1917
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In North Dormer, a June afternoon brings a stranger in city clothes and stirs Charity Royall's impatience with her village. Charity works in the small memorial library, where old books gather damp and her crochet work fills the quiet hours. A visit to Nettleton has already shown her shops, a theatre and a world beyond the hills. Seeing the newcomer makes the familiar street seem smaller and revives her wish for something more.

The novel follows Charity's thoughts closely, setting bright weather and ordinary objects beside feelings of shame, envy and restlessness. Villagers repeatedly remind her that lawyer Royall brought her down from the Mountain as a child, making gratitude feel like an obligation. The library encounter brings curiosity, awkwardness and a hint of condescension into that constrained life.

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Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones into the New York society she spent a career anatomising, and her first book was about interior decoration rather than fiction: The Decoration of Houses, written in 1897 with the architect Ogden Codman Jr.

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First published
1917
Reading time
About 4 hours
Pages
112
Language
English
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