![]() ![]() Charity feels claustrophobically stifled by its intrusive small-minded parochialism and she years for a more sophisticated environment, even though she lacks the cultural knowledge or experience to define what that might be. It is approximately 50,000 words long – which is shorter than most full length novels.Ĭharity has been raised in the small rural town of North Dorner, and that is the location in which all the significant action takes place. It usually compresses its themes into a shorter space by eliminating all superfluous incidents, having fewer characters, and concentrating on a central issue. ![]() The novella also usually has some sort of unifying symbol(s) or metaphor(s). But there is general agreement that a novella should be shorter than most novels – and that it should demonstrate a marked degree of unity of place, time, theme, action, atmosphere, and character. The distinction cannot be measured in the number of words – and neither the novel nor the novella can easily be defined. It is often difficult to tell the difference between a short novel and a novella. Like the earlier narrative the events of the story are set in a small, poor town in a remote part of New England. Wharton regarded it as a twin piece to her earlier novella Ethan Frome (1911) (and she even called it ‘my hot Ethan’). Summer was written in what Edith Wharton described as ‘a high pitch of creative joy’ in 1917, and was first published by D. ![]() ![]() Tutorial, commentary, study resources, and plot summary ![]()
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