Indian Summer

About this film

LibriVox recording of Indian Summer by William Dean Howells. Read by Leonard Wilson. This novel is a mellow but realistic story that captures the feel of that delightful time of the year. Theodore Colville, a sophisticated American gentleman, has just entered his middle years as he returns to a scene, Florence, Italy, that played an important part in his early manhood. It was here nearly twenty years earlier that he first fell in love, seemingly successfully until a sudden and harsh rejection. Now that his career as a newspaper editor has ended, he is barely ensconced in the Italian city when he meets a lady from his past, a close friend of his lost love. Lina Bowen, now a widow with a young daughter, is an attractive and charming socialite among the American residents of Florence. Also living with her at this time as a temporary ward is a beautiful young girl just blossoming into womanhood, Imogene Graham. Colville, formerly rather shy, has become an exceedingly witty conversationalist. He quickly becomes a favorite with young Effie Bowen and Imogene Graham. Miss Graham indicates a disdain for the shallow young men that she has met and is highly attracted to the urbane, intelligen…

Directors & creators

William Dean Howells

Subjects

librivox; literature; audiobook; adventure; historical fiction; nature; romance; satire

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