Indian Summer - Couverture souple

Howells, William Dean

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1408623218 ISBN 13 : 9781408623213

Editeur : Read Books, 2007

Synopsis

This is the tale of a love triangle between Americans on vacation in Florence. Theodore Colville is vacationing in Florence after a losing his career. He finds himself in a love triangle with a slightly younger woman and a girl young enough to be his daughter and he must discover who truly loves him. Set in beautiful, colourful, vivid 19th Century Florence and a view to how wealthy Americans lived and perceived Europe.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

William Dean Howells (1837–1920), the author of thirty-six novels, twelve books of travel, and many short stories, articles, essays, and poems, grew up in Martin’s Ferry, Ohio, the son of a printer with strong antislavery and egalitarian beliefs. Largely self-taught, Howells began his writing career as a reporter and was soon publishing poetry, fiction, and criticism in national magazines. He wrote a campaign biography for Abraham Lincoln and was rewarded with an appointment as the US consul in Venice. In Europe Howells met Eleanor Mead, whom he married in 1862, and for the rest of his life he would rely on what he called her “unerring artistic taste.” In 1866, Howells became the assistant editor of the Atlantic Monthly, which led to close friendships with other American writers, among them Henry James, Samuel Clemens, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and James Russell Lowell. He championed the work of Emily Dickinson, Stephen Crane, and Paul Laurence Dunbar, and was one of the only prominent Americans to protest execution of four Anarchists after the 1886 Haymarket Bombings. In 1881, Howells resigned his editorship to concentrate on writing fiction—among his best-known novels are The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885), Indian Summer (1886), and A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890)—and in 1908 he was elected the first president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Wendy Lesser is the founding editor of The Threepenny Review and the author of six books of nonfiction. Her reviews and essays have appeared in periodicals around the country, and she has been a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Arts Jouranlism Program, and the American Academy in Berlin. She lives in Berkeley, California.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Colville was devouring as best he might the chagrin with which he had come away from Palazzo Pinti, while he packed his trunk for departure. Now that the thing was over, the worst was past. A gain he observed that his emotions had no longer the continuity that the emotions of his youth possessed. As he remembered, a painful or pleasant impression used to last indefinitely ;but here he was Mrith this humiliating affair hot in his mind, shrugging his shoulders with a sense of relief, almost a sense of escape.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Read Books
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1408623218
• ISBN 13: 9781408623213
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 404
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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