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  • Published: 5 September 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241630815
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $28.00

Summer




Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith

A novella regarded by Edith Wharton as one of her very best, Summer tells the tale of forbidden sexual passion and thwarted dreams set against the backdrop of a lush summer in rural Massachusetts. A sensation on first publication, its honest depiction of a young woman attempting to live on her own terms remains as vital today as it was in 1917.

  • Published: 5 September 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241630815
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $28.00

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Persuasion
The Black Tulip
The Lady of the Camellias
On Sparta
Man and Superman
Love
Annals
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About the author

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton was born into a wealthy New York family in 1862, during the American Civil War. She married at twenty-three, and subsequently divided her time between homes in New York, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. The House of Mirth, perhaps her most famous work, appeared in 1905, and was followed by Ethan Frome, The Custom of the Country, Summer and The Age of Innocence. Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She died in 1937.

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