Autumn Odyssey: An International Romantic Adventure - Softcover

Wells, Dr. Thomas L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1497520061 ISBN 13: 9781497520066

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

Autumn Odyssey is the story of Richard Rouse an older American professor who is teaching English in a Czech university when he meets Helga Wintermantle, a German woman language teacher living in Prague where they fall in love. During the ensuing summer the story, which is told from the man's perspective, takes them on an exciting, love-filled auto trip across much of Western Europe. They tour city after fascinating city, and quaint little out-of-the-way-places and villages in France and Italy, and their final destination, an unbelievably wonderful little Greek island far out in the Aegean Sea. When the summer ends they move to New Orleans where Richard is on the faculty at Tulane University. They enjoy enchanting days and nights on Bourbon Street where Helga is fascinated by the wonders of the French Quarter, and which Richard seen entirely anew through her eyes. But Richard's old flame, professor Jennifer Smartley causes trouble at a faculty Mardi gras party, and a few days later Helga mysteriously disappears from New Orleans. Richard, his heart breaking, uses his spring break to hurry back to Europe to look for her, but he searches in vain, finding out nothing. He returns to New Orleans and convinces his department chairman he must take off the entire fall semester and go back to Europe and look for her more thoroughly; thus begins his autumn odyssey. Richard revisits each of the wonderfully romantic places they had visited on their magical summer trip: Prague, Brno, Paris, Chambord, an especially quaint little French village, Venice, Vernazza, a tiny picture-perfect Italian coastal village, then Rome where they unexpectedly come upon a photographer with a wedding couple which, of course, plays on Helga's most cherished wish that they marry and and have children; and at last he searches for her on their dreamed of little Greek island. And most miraculous of all, when he arrives she is there, too, and they share a love-filled reunion at their favorite secluded cove

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About the Author:

Thomas Wells, professor emeritus at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia is a native of North Carolina. He was educated at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC with a BS and an MA; and he earned a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. He has lived in Norfolk, Virginia; Los Angeles, California; New Orleans, Louisiana; Heidelberg, Germany; and the cities of Prague and Brno in the Czech Republic. After retirement he returned to his small eastern North Carolina hometown which had been the locale for many of his short stories. He has three grown sons. His earlier novel, RED PANTHERS, is a fictionalized version of a plot by a group of disgruntled old communists who hoped to reestablish communism in the Czech Republic and throughout all of Eastern Europe. The ideas for his novels have come from his two years teaching English as a foreign language at Masarykova University in the city of Brno, Czech Republic and from the many stories his students told him about their lives under the oppressive rule of the communists. Both books are available at Amazon.com.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1497520061
• ISBN 13: 9781497520066
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368