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Indian summer. 1st Vintage Books/Library of America ed.
Author
"Howells, William Dean."
Publisher
New York : Vintage Books/Library of America
Date1990
ClassificationsMain Library Collection
Object numberPS2025 .I55 1990
Description"xviii, 278 p. ; 20 cm."Set in Italy against a background of scenes taken from Howells's Tuscan Cities (1885), Indian Summer is the story of middle-aged bachelor Theodore Colville's romantic involvement with two women, one his own age and the other much younger. The principal theme of the book is the January and May romance between Colville and the younger woman, Imogene Graham. A number of the themes which preoccupy Howells in his other fiction also appear in the novel. The relationship between motive and consequences, for example, is touched on as Colville and the Reverend Waters, a chorus character, discuss the moral implica.
Americans--Italy--Fiction.
Middle-aged men--Fiction.
Midlife crisis--Fiction.
Italy--Fiction.