Edith Wharton called it 'Hot Ethan' — the sun-struck counterpart to Ethan Frome — and wrote it amid the First World War without a flinch. Charity Royall, lifted as a child out of a squalid mountain settlement by the guardian who now watches her too closely, spends one summer with a young architect down from the city and grasps, long before he does, exactly how it must end. This edition presents Wharton's complete and unabridged novel, newly typeset and illustrated with 31 full-page color plates, Monet's poppy fields among them.
