Summer
by:
Edith Wharton (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780486452388 (0486452387)
Publish date: September 15th 2006
Publisher: Dover Publications
Pages no: 127
Edition language: English
People refer to this as Wharton's most erotic book. I disagree with that characterization - I think that The Age of Innocence, with its unrequited, simmering passion between Countess Olenska and Newland Archer is much more erotic. This one is sexier. Charity Royall is a young woman who has been ra...
“There it lay, a weather-beaten sunburnt village of the hills, abandoned of men, left apart by railway, trolley, telegraph, and all the forces that link life to life in modern communities. It had no shops, no theatres, no lectures, no ‘business block’; only a church that was opened every Sunday if t...
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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 ...
Rates right up there with "The Awakening," but I prefer Wharton's writing and perspectives over Kate Chopin's.
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