Indian Summer (version 2)
William Dean Howells
Set in Florence's Anglo-American colony in the late 19th century, this is a romantic story of a middle-aged man, returning to the scene of his first but disappointed love twenty years earlier. The doings of Americans abroad were staples of the fictions of Henry James and Edith Wharton, but Howells’s view is rather different. As John Updike has said of it, “the felicity of the writing makes us pause in admiration….A midlife crisis has rarely been sketched in fiction with better humor, with gentler comedy and more gracious acceptance of life’s irrevocability.” ( Nicholas Clifford)
Author - William Dean Howells.
Narrator - Nicholas Clifford.
Published Date - Thursday, 19 January 2023.
Location:
United States
Description:
Set in Florence's Anglo-American colony in the late 19th century, this is a romantic story of a middle-aged man, returning to the scene of his first but disappointed love twenty years earlier. The doings of Americans abroad were staples of the fictions of Henry James and Edith Wharton, but Howells’s view is rather different. As John Updike has said of it, “the felicity of the writing makes us pause in admiration….A midlife crisis has rarely been sketched in fiction with better humor, with gentler comedy and more gracious acceptance of life’s irrevocability.” ( Nicholas Clifford) Author - William Dean Howells. Narrator - Nicholas Clifford. Published Date - Thursday, 19 January 2023.
Language:
English
Chapter 1
Duration:00:17:58
Chapter 2
Duration:00:16:55
Chapter 3
Duration:00:23:51
Chapter 4
Duration:00:21:17
Chapter 5
Duration:00:20:49
Chapter 6
Duration:00:24:48
Chapter 7
Duration:00:42:43
Chapter 8
Duration:00:38:17
Chapter 9
Duration:00:29:06
Chapter 10
Duration:00:18:18
Chapter 11
Duration:00:45:28
Chapter 12
Duration:00:13:58
Chapter 13
Duration:00:26:52
Chapter 14
Duration:00:22:17
Chapter 15
Duration:00:30:25
Chapter 16
Duration:00:37:54
Chapter 17
Duration:00:18:22
Chapter 18
Duration:00:26:30
Chapter 19
Duration:00:15:47
Chapter 20
Duration:00:37:27
Chapter 21
Duration:00:14:49
Chapter 22
Duration:00:19:35
Chapter 23
Duration:00:19:37
Chapter 24
Duration:00:03:56