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Indian Summer

William Dean Howells

Indian Summer

Indian Summer

William Dean Howells

Fiction, Romance

Theodore Colville, a Midwestern newspaperman adrift in his forties after selling his paper and escaping a failed engagement, flees back to the Florentine haunts of his youth. There, amidst the sun-drenched Renaissance city, he finds himself drawn into a complex romantic entanglement with Imogene Graham, a vibrant, earnest young woman barely out of her teens, who is under the chaperonage of his old acquaintance, Mrs. Bowen. What begins as an innocent flirtation blossoms into something more profound, forcing Colville to confront the chasm of age and experience separating them, and the lingering specters of his past failures.

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