Summer
by Edith Wharton
Taste attributes: romancedramaslowfresh & originalheavyrealisticlinearglossyenclosedemotive & stirringcoming of agecomplex relationshiptroubled leads
Boxlist takeA grounded romance novel that is moving, fresh and contained. Best if you like real life over fantasy.
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Pace: balanced · Originality: fresh · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: confined · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score
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3.8 / 5
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About This Book
Summer, Edith Wharton wrote to Gaillard Lapsley, "is known to its author and her familars as the Hot Ethan." One of the first American novels to deal frankly with a young woman's sexual awakening, it was a publishing sensation when it appeared in 1917, praised by Joseph Conrad, Howard Sturgis, and Percy Lubbock, and favorably compared to Madame Bovary.
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- Author
- Edith Wharton
- Published
- 1917
- Pages
- 168
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