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After forty, Theodore Colville decides to leave his successful midwestern newspaper empire and head to Florence, Italy, in pursuit of the architectural career he once dreamed of. There he encounters Lina Bowen, the spirited survivor of an unhappy marriage and former confidante of a woman who once jilted him, and her young visitor Imogene Graham, a bright and earnest twenty‑year‑old. The interactions among these three well‑meaning characters, set against the backdrop of Florence’s historic beauty, unfold into a witty, comic examination of misunderstandings, mutability, and the thresholds of midlife change.
First publish date: 1885
Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction
Authors: William Dean Howells
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