Indian Summer (Masterplots II: World Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Adalbert Stifter
- First Published: 1857
- Type of Work: Bildungsroman
- Time of Work: The 1820’s
- Setting: Vienna, the Austrian Alps, and the subalpine countryside
- Principal Characters: Heinrich Drendorf, Baron Gustav Von Risach, Mathilde Torona, Natalie, Gustav, Klotilde
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman
- Subjects: Family or family life, Love or romance, Nineteenth century, Education or educators, Austria or Austrians, Alps
- Locales: Vienna, Austria, Florence, Italy, Italy, Alps, Austria
The Novel
Indian Summer is a leisurely paced novel whose chief attribute is its serenity. The plot, deliberately lacking in dramatic incidents, tensions, and struggles, charts the almost imperceptible growth of a young man toward the humanistic ideal of a harmoniously shaped individual who is able to master life and live it in a model environment. His union with a young girl, similarly reared, in the end establishes a potentially perfect family, founded within a circle of like-minded relatives and friends in an idealized, Edenic landscape.
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