Summer

Edith Wharton called it 'Hot Ethan' - the sun-struck counterpart to Ethan Frome - and wrote it amid the First World War without a flinch. Charity Royall, lifted as a child out of a squalid mountain settlement by the guardian who now watches her too closely, spends one summer with a young architect down from the city and grasps, long before he does, exactly how it must end. This edition presents Wh...