Written in Paris in 1916, as Edith Whaton contemplated the German army's approach,SUMMER is her most erotic and lyrical novel. The setting for the book, however, is far away from Paris, in the same rigid New England she used forEthan FROME. It is here that she explores her most daring theme-a woman' ...
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Engaged to the docile May Welland, Newland Archer falls madly in love with the nonconformist Countess Olenska, an older woman with a reputation, but his allegiance to the social code of their set makes their love an impossibility.