Indian Summer (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: William Dean Howells
- First Published: 1886
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: Shortly after the American Civil War
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Love or romance
- Locales: Florence, Italy
Places Discussed
*Florence. Northern Italian city noted as a center of great artistic and architectural works that the young American architect Theodore Colville visited during his youth. After becoming a journalist in a midwestern town, Colville, has sold his newspaper and returned to Florence twenty years later. At forty-one, he is unlikely to resume his early vocation, but he fails to recapture any of the vitality of his earlier experience in Florence. He proposed, unsuccessfully, to a young woman during his first visit to Florence; now he is still a bachelor and tries to...
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