# Summer — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for Summer by Edith Wharton.

- [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/summer_se/chapters/i.md): Charity Royall steps out of lawyer Royall's house in North Dormer on a June afternoon and notices a stranger in city clothes. She reflects on her confinement in the isolated village, recalling a trip to Nettleton that op
- [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/summer_se/chapters/ii.md): Charity Royall reflects on her past and her relationship with her guardian, Lawyer Royall, after a brief encounter with Lucius Harney at the library. She recalls how she came to live with the Royalls, her decision to sta
- [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/summer_se/chapters/iii.md): Charity Royall, stung by the revelation that Lucius Harney reported the library's poor condition to Miss Hatchard, decides to resign her post. She goes to the library to collect her things but is overwhelmed by despair. 
- [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/summer_se/chapters/iv.md): Charity confronts Lucius Harney in the library, accusing him of turning Miss Hatchard against her and causing her to lose her job. Harney explains he only commented on the books' condition and ventilation, not on her per
- [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/summer_se/chapters/v.md): On a perfect June day, Charity Royall lies on a hillside, immersed in nature. She encounters Liff Hyatt, a man from the Mountain, and questions him about a brown house. Later, Lucius Harney joins her, and she offers to t

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- [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/summer_se/chapters/vi.md)
- [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/summer_se/chapters/vii.md)
- [VIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/summer_se/chapters/viii.md)
- [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/summer_se/chapters/ix.md)
- [X](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/summer_se/chapters/x.md)
- [Chapter XI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/summer_se/chapters/xi.md)
- [XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/summer_se/chapters/xii.md)
- [XIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/summer_se/chapters/xiii.md)
- [XIV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/summer_se/chapters/xiv.md)
- [Chapter XV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/summer_se/chapters/xv.md)
- [XVI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/summer_se/chapters/xvi.md)
- [XVII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/summer_se/chapters/xvii.md)
- [XVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/summer_se/chapters/xviii.md)

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