Indian Summer (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: William Dean Howells
- First Published: 1886
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Love or romance, Nineteenth century, Accidents, Aristocracy or aristocrats, Italy or Italians, Middle age
- Locales: Florence, Italy
Indian Summer, Howells's last international novel, was written after the author and his family revisited Italy after his resignation from The Atlantic Monthly. The novel's title and tone reflect the nostalgic mood the visit produced in Howells. 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...
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