Indian Summer

Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, Telemaco Signorini and Giuseppe De Nittis. A middle-aged American in Florence, comfortable and finished with life, is courted by a girl of twenty and by her chaperone, who is his own age — and behaves badly, then better, then badly again. Howells edited The Atlantic and was the most powerful literary broker in America; this 1886 no...