Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. She had always thought of love as something confused and furtive, and he made it as bright and open as the summer air A tale of forbidden passion, Summer depicts a young woman who wants to live and love on her own terms. Seventeen-year-old Charity Royall is desperate to escape her hard-drinking adoptive father in rural Massachusetts. When a young city architect visits for the summer, it offers her hope for a new life. But will their affair bring her the freedom she craves? Edith Wharton was famous for her novels including The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome and The Age of Innocence, for which she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, in 1921.