Indian Summer is an 1886 novel by William Dean Howells, depicting Theodore Colville who travels to Florence to take up an interest in architecture he had abandoned years before. Howells was a realist writer who wanted "his characters to be honest, ordinary people, flawed and well-meaning."
Indian Summer è un romanzo del 1886 di William Dean Howells, che descrive Theodore Colville, il quale si reca a Firenze per coltivare un interesse per l'architettura che aveva abbandonato anni prima. Howells era uno scrittore realista che voleva che i suoi personaggi fossero persone oneste e ordinarie, con difetti ma benigne, legate dalle convenzioni del loro tempo.
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| Back | Novel William Dean Howells 1886 Theodore Colville who travels to Florence to take up an intrest in Architecture he had abandoned years before Indian Summer is an 1886 novel by William Dean Howells. Though it was published after The Rise of Silas Lapham, it was written before The Rise of Silas Lapham. The setting for this novel was inspired by a trip Howells had recently taken with his family to Europe. Howells was a realist writer who wanted “his characters to be honest, ordinary people, as he might find in his strata of society, flawed and well-meaning, good-hearted and self-effacing, bound by the conventions and the restrictions of their day but quietly dreaming of a little local heroism in their souls.” [2] All of this is encompassed in the character Theodore Colville. |
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