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Summer, Edith Wharton (1917)

On October 21, 2016February 24, 2026 By LaurieIn American LiteratureLeave a comment

“She loved the roughness of the dry mountain grass under her palms, the smell of the thyme into which she crushed her face, the fingering of the wind in her hair and through her cotton blouse, and the creak of the larches as they swayed to it.” Charity Royall was born into extreme poverty on …

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