{"product_id":"summer-9780553214222","title":"Summer","description":"Considered by some to be her finest work, Edith Wharton's \u003cb\u003eSummer\u003c\/b\u003e created a sensation when first published in 1917, as it was one of the first novels to deal honestly with a young woman's sexual awakening. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSummer\u003c\/b\u003e is the story of Charity Royall, a child of mountain moonshiners adopted by a family in a poor New England town, who has a passionate love affair with Lucius Harney, an educated man from the city. Wharton broke the conventions of women's romantic fiction by making Charity a thoroughly independent modern woman--in touch with her emotions and sexuality, yet kept from love and the larger world she craves by the overwhelming pressures of heredity and society. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePraised for its realism and honesty by such writers as Joseph Conrad and Henry James and compared to Flaubert's \u003cb\u003eMadame Bovary\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eSummer\u003c\/b\u003e remains as fresh and powerful a novel today as when it was first written.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bantam Classics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780553214222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.87h x 4.20w x 0.53d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/15\/1993\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Edith Wharton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43059701711029,"sku":"9780553214222","price":5.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_caaab99a-05e1-47b4-900d-414cdea2340b.jpg?v=1690297286","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/summer-9780553214222","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}