Considered by some to be her finest work, Edith Wharton’s Summer 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.
Summer 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 Luc...
Considered by some to be her finest work, Edith Wharton’s Summer 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.
Summer 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.
Praised for its realism and honesty by such writers as Joseph Conrad and Henry James and compared to Flaubert’s Madame Bovary , Summer remains as fresh and powerful a novel today as when it was first written.
She had always kept to herself,contemptuously aloof from village love-making, without exactly knowingwhether her fierce pride was due to the sense of her tainted origin, or whether she was reserving herself for a more brilliant fate. (查看原文)
Edith Wharton在37岁时列了一份自己最喜欢的文学作品清单： Madame Bovary, Flaubert Bouvard et Pecuchet, Flaubert 一本没写完但却注定精采的作品 Adolfe, Constant The Charterhouse of Parma, Stendhal The Red and the Black, Stendhal 不禁在心中惊叹：这个世界真小啊。...
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3 有用 室内蘑菇云 2014-06-06 18:32:32
2014.5.5—6.6 路上十分钟二十分钟地读，薄薄的一本花了这么多天才看完。Edith写少女幽暗委婉心事，真是美极了。就像看一朵花含苞，盛放，又悄悄地凋零，说不出地黯然。
2 有用 梅文女王殿下 2018-07-10 02:39:47
2018.7.9 这辈子和一个自己不爱的人结婚，是多么地屈辱... 你对我再好，也抵不过他的一个微笑。 而我再爱他，就是赌上我的全部，也不过换来一个夏天的相遇...
0 有用 硫随 2021-05-24 17:19:46
Too sentimental……虽然文笔很好，但是放到一百年后的今天实在没法当作严肃文学看待，而是可以在晋江文学城里通过检索西方罗曼+乡村爱情+情有独钟，大数据搜索后蹦出来的小言啊……
0 有用 英文系小学生 2017-03-30 15:07:05
在南图找到了本牛津版的summer，封面非常好看，就拿回来读了。相比故事，更喜欢作者的语言。
0 有用 猫阿西 2018-12-30 14:04:03
2017年的夏日读物/养成系列。
0 有用 晨一钟 2022-10-10 10:41:36 美国
别扭的少女心事，开始在炎热的夏天，结束在深秋有凉意看得见月亮的晚上。Charity妥协之后，眼中的景物都变得凄凉起来，心情也跟着迟钝起来。与Harney在一起的独立日每个时刻都那么鲜活，尤其是在烟花下猝不及防的初吻。但是结尾她在戴上婚戒时都没有什么实感，只是再初秋的傍晚，看到日落时远处山的轮廓和横亘在眼前的一大片湖时才有一种一切都无法挽回的感觉。结尾加分，落在现实感上。Edith Wharton真... 别扭的少女心事，开始在炎热的夏天，结束在深秋有凉意看得见月亮的晚上。Charity妥协之后，眼中的景物都变得凄凉起来，心情也跟着迟钝起来。与Harney在一起的独立日每个时刻都那么鲜活，尤其是在烟花下猝不及防的初吻。但是结尾她在戴上婚戒时都没有什么实感，只是再初秋的傍晚，看到日落时远处山的轮廓和横亘在眼前的一大片湖时才有一种一切都无法挽回的感觉。结尾加分，落在现实感上。Edith Wharton真的好会写 (展开)
0 有用 鹤影 2022-07-28 23:59:46
清淡细腻的笔触，少女的心绪、景色的变迁都雕琢得十分细腻。（但是中间大段的爱情描写我真的有点不感冒。
0 有用 Ivyyyy 2022-03-09 19:30:08
オトメこころ啊
0 有用 硫随 2021-05-24 17:19:46
Too sentimental……虽然文笔很好，但是放到一百年后的今天实在没法当作严肃文学看待，而是可以在晋江文学城里通过检索西方罗曼+乡村爱情+情有独钟，大数据搜索后蹦出来的小言啊……
0 有用 跳房子 2021-01-13 21:10:51
Edith Wharton的文笔懂魔法，挥手一段情节起，一段哀愁落，你只管关掉现实跟随她。所有的相遇看似简单，其实不露声色地做实了铺垫，情感矛盾一触即发，角色厚薄得当，一景一物都会说话，是不会随岁月衰老的Romance。太会写了，她太会写了。