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Summer

Edith Wharton

Summer

Publisher Marketing: A girl came out of lawyer Royall's house, at the end of the one street of North Dormer, and stood on the doorstep. It was the beginning of a June afternoon. The springlike transparent sky shed a rain of silver sunshine on the roofs of the village, and on the pastures and larchwoods surrounding it. A little wind moved among the round white clouds on the shoulders of the hills, driving their shadows across the fields and down the grassy road that takes the name of street when it passes through North Dormer. The place lies high and in the open, and lacks the lavish shade of the more protected New England villages. The clump of weeping-willows about the duck pond, and the Norway spruces in front of the Hatchard gate, cast almost the only roadside shadow between lawyer Royall's house and the point where, at the other end of the village, the road rises above the church and skirts the black hemlock wall enclosing the cemetery. The little June wind, frisking down the street, shook the doleful fringes of the Hatchard spruces, caught the straw hat of a young man just passing under them, and spun it clean across the road into the duck-pond. As he ran to fish it out the girl on lawyer Royall's doorstep noticed that he was a stranger, that he wore city clothes, and that he was laughing with all his teeth, as the young and careless laugh at such mishaps. Her heart contracted a little, and the shrinking that sometimes came over her when she saw people with holiday faces made her draw back into the house and pretend to look for the key that she knew she had already put into her pocket. A narrow greenish mirror with a gilt eagle over it hung on the passage wall, and she looked critically at her reflection, wished for the thousandth time that she had blue eyes like Annabel Balch, the girl who sometimes came from Springfield to spend a week with old Miss Hatchard, straightened the sunburnt hat over her small swarthy face, and turned out again into the sunshine. "How I hate everything!" she murmured. Review Citations: Library Journal 01/01/1994 (EAN 9780553214222, Mass Market Paperbound) Library Journal 10/15/1993 (EAN 9780553214222, Mass Market Paperbound) Audio File 03/23/2011 pg. 60 (EAN 9781400119462, Compact Disc) Booklist 06/01/2002 pg. 1681 (EAN 9780684842585, Paperback) Contributor Bio:  Wharton, Edith Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was raised in New York City in a socially prominent family. She wrote the novels The Age of Innocence, Ethan Frome, Old New York, The Old Maid, and The House of Mirth.

Medie Bøger     Paperback Bog   (Bog med blødt omslag og limet ryg)
Udgivet 17. april 2014
ISBN13 9781499169560
Forlag Createspace
Genre Chronological Period > 1900-1949
Antal sider 84
Mål 152 × 229 × 4 mm   ·   122 g

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