# Summer (version 2)

An audiobook by Edith Wharton, read by LibriVox volunteers (5 h 42 min, English).

Wharton's 1917 novella Summer, like her more famous work Ethan Frome, is set in a very small rural New England town. Charity Royall longs to escape the claustrophobic confines of North Dormer and the inappropriate advances of her guardian Mr. Royall, who adopted her as a child from the nearby Mountain community. Hope arrives in the form of city boy Lucius Harney, who has come to research the architecture of the region; but will his presence in Charity's life mean her salvation - or her undoing? (Introduction by Elizabeth Klett)

[Listen](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/5489)
[Read the book](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/gutenberg/166/read)