Can I read Summer Will Show (Virago Modern Classics) on EtoBox?

Summer Will Show (Virago Modern Classics) by Sylvia Townsend Warner; with a new introduction by Claire Harman is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Summer Will Show (Virago Modern Classics) about?

An alternative cover for this edition can be found (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40127873-summer-will-show) here Sophia Willoughby, a young Englishwoman from an aristocratic family and a person of strong opinions and even stronger will, has packed her cheating husband off to Paris. He can have his tawdry mistress. She intends to devote herself to the serious business of raising her two children in proper Tory fashion. Then tragedy strikes: the children die, and Sophia, in despair, finds her way to Paris, arriving just in time for the revolution of 1848. Before long she has formed the unlikeliest of close relations with Minna, her husbands sometime mistress, whose dramatic recitations, based on her hair-raising childhood in czarist Russia, electrify audiences in drawing rooms and on the street alike. Minna, magnanimous and unscrupulous, fickle, ardent, and interfering, leads Sophia on a wild adventure through bohemian and revolutionary Paris, in a story that reaches an unforgettable conclusion amidst the bullets, bloodshed, and hope of the barricades. Sylvia Townsend Warner was one of the most original and inventive of twentieth-century English novelists. At once an adventure

Who reads Summer Will Show (Virago Modern Classics)?

Author

Sylvia Townsend Warner; with a new introduction by Claire Harman

Publisher

New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Penguin Books-Virago Press

Published

1987

Language

EN

ISBN

9780140161762

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.59 / 5 (186 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14