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1) Summer
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One of Edith Wharton's personal favorites, Summer "breaks, or stretches, many conventions of romandc love stories and in the process creates a new picture of female sexuality" (Marilyn French, from the Introduction).
Like Wharton's more famous novel Ethan Frome, Summer is set in the Berkshires. But the chilly hills that set the background for Ethan's tentative, ill-fated romance have been replaced by a landscape bathed in sun -- and the figure at...
2) Ethan Frome
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"Ethan Frome is a 1911 book by American author Edith Wharton, Perhaps the best-known and most popular novel and widely considered her masterpiece.
It is set in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. The novel tells of Frome, his ailing wife Zeena and her companion Mattie Silver, superbly delineating the characters of each as they are drawn relentlessly into a deep-rooted domestic struggle.
Wharton explores psychological dead-lock:frustration,...
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