Summer - Edith Wharton

Summer by Edith Wharton / ISBN 9780241630815 / 240-page hardback from Penguin

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Edith Wharton's cult-classic novella of a young woman's sexual awakening, now in a Little Clothbound Classic designed by 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.