Edith Wharton's 1917 novel Summer is a coming-of-age story set in the small New England village of North Dormer. It follows a young woman living in lawyer Royall's household as a stranger's arrival stirs her longing for a larger life. Wharton's precise, atmospheric prose makes it rewarding to listen to.
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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.
Opening of the book
SUMMER by Edith Wharton 1917 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
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