📱 eBook en inglés SUMMER (SUMMARIZED EDITION)

Summer (1917) follows Charity Royall in the New England hill country as a young womans desire collides with the hard strata of class and law. Whartons taut, sensuous prose couples local-color detail with a naturalist regard for social constraint, turning heat into both atmosphere and agent. Drawn to Lucius Harney, an architect cataloging vernacular houses, Charitys pastoral romance darkens into a study of dependency, reputation, and power—an explicit summer counterpart to Ethan Frome that fuses bildungsroman and regional tragedy. Edith Wharton, born into New Yorks patriciate and long resident at The Mount in Lenox, observed New England manners with an ethnographers patience and a moralists clarity. Her architectural interests and travel inform Harneys vocation, while restrictive social codes—sharpened by her divorce and wartime expatriation—focused her insight into transgression and female agency. In Summer she tests desire against geography and law. Readers of American realism, feminist literary history, or Thomas Hardy and Kate Chopin will find Summer accessible yet disquieting: swift, lyrically exact, and ethically unflinching. Ideal for classrooms and book clubs confronting consent, class mobility, and community surveillance—and for anyone attuned to how place scripts a life.
Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readable—distilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.