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Edith Wharton - Summer by Edith Wharton

9 reviews

chluless's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective sad
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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tiiiger35's review against another edition

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dark slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.25

Considering this novel was first published in 1917 much of its themes are relatively similar to today’s ongoing struggles. It’s still a man’s world, women are still treated as second class citizens & when it comes to women’s bodily autonomy…somehow men still control that too. 
I had read somewhere this book was Wharton’s most erotic novel written but even the most prudish amongst us would struggle to find anything more salacious than a few sexual innuendos.
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gabriella_'s review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

This has GOT to be a horror novel omfg. Edith Wharton is always writing horrifically about the ways patriarchy ruins women’s lives in what should be totally avoidable ways. I could NOT stop reading this, I audibly gasped and my jaw dropped at multiple points
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kermittuesday's review against another edition

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fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

I get how this was groundbreaking at the time but it bored me. 
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hphipps's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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phoevincent's review against another edition

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emotional reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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heather_freshparchment's review against another edition

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emotional reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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5aru's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This made me genuinely very sad. I feel very touched by stories like these — like with Tess of the D'Urbervilles, though (only slightly) less rapey. Young girls who get taken advantage of, who struggle to live in a world where the odds are stacked against them, really tug at my heartstrings.

And I have yet to see an author that is quite so merciless to her heroines as Edith Wharton. The tragedy of the (rather unsatisfying) ending is made more poignant by the fact that Charity wanted so badly to run away, to become a better version of herself — yet was thoroughly tied down, trapped by the society and people she despises and disregards. The comparison with Lily Bart is inevitable, yet I can't help but be softer for Charity, if only because of her youth and inexperience.
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issyd23's review against another edition

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emotional reflective sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

Disappointed Charity didn’t play her cards right and end up with a rich husband 2😭
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