Summer
| dc.contributor | Triggs, Jeffery North American Reading Project, Oxford University Press |
| dc.contributor.author | Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 |
| dc.coverage.placeName | s.l. |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-14 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T10:32:39Z |
| dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T10:32:39Z |
| dc.date.created | 1917 |
| dc.identifier | ota:3135 |
| dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/3135 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/3135 |
| dc.description.abstract | First edition 1917 |
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| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Core Collection |
| dc.relation.replaces | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/2207 |
| dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ |
| dc.rights.label | PUB |
| dc.subject.lcsh | American fiction -- 20th century |
| dc.title | Summer |
| dc.type | Text |
| has.files | yes |
| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| files.size | 1897280 |
| files.count | 5 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1900-1999 |
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Summer
by
Edith Wharton
I
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.
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