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Summer

Edith Wharton
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Duration
4h 49m
Year
2024
Language
English
Publisher
Interactive Media

About

Charity Royall is eighteen, bored with life in the small town of North Dormer. While working at the library, Charity meets visiting architect Lucius Harney and they become friends. Will their growing closeness lead to a happy marriage? Charity was born in an impoverished mountain community and her life is complicated by Mr. Royall who intruded into her bedroom when she was seventeen and later urged her to marry him. Lucius starts an affair with Charity Royall, all the while hiding the fact that he is engaged to society girl Annabel Balch.

Related Subjects

  • General (Romance)
  • Romance
  • Adult Fiction
  • General (Historical)
  • Historical

Reviews

There is no one like Edith Wharton to explore the complexities of human relationships, and narrator Laurel Lefkow is an excellent guide to that exploration. This audiobook features Charity Royall, a young woman who is struggling against society's constraints as she tries to develop her own sense of self. When she becomes caught up in an inappropriate relationship with a man of questionable charact
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Artists

Edith WhartonAuthor
Sebastian BlackwoodReader

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