Summer with Original Foreword by Johanna Parkhurst

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Edith Wharton's Controversial Coming-of-Age Novel</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A story full of spirit and scandal...</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Charity Royall longs for more in life. She can't stand her sleepy little village or the people who walk its streets. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Then Lucius Harney strolls into town. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>He awakes an excitement within Charity that can't be chastened. They have no shortage of valid excuses to meet together but it doesn't take long for whispers of scandal to snake their way through the community.</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>[Summer]</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is about a character scraped down to the barest elements of her vulnerabilities by her emotional and physical passions. It is a story of how love relationships and sex reshape and redefine one person's entire world. -J.E. Birk author of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Booklover</em></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This beautifully designed rendition of one of Wharton's classics is a must-have for anyone who also loves stories such as </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Emma The Age of Innocence </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>and</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Little Women.</em></p>