Indian summer
By: by William D. Howells ...
Publisher: Ticknor and company
Published: 1886
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
Subjects: Americans -- Italy -- Fiction; Middle-aged men -- Fiction; Midlife crisis -- Fiction; Italy -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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.