From which novel is taken this text?
 
 

It was a glorious morning, late spring or early summer, as you care to take it, when the dainty sheen of grass and leaf is blushing to a deeper green; and the year seems like a fair young maid, trembling with strange, wakening pulses on the brink of womanhood.


 
Choose one of the following:
 
AuthorTitle of the novelChoice
Jerome K. Jerome Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog) A
Vladimir Nabokov Lolita B
F. Scott Fitzgerald Tender is the night C
My daughter Paola Her first novel D

 
 


 

Who knows if Jerome had in mind the "glorious morning" of Shakespeare (Sonnet XXXIII) when he wrote this incipit to the sixth capter of his masterpiece?
The above photograph (courtesy of Alan Sutton Publisher) portrays the "three men" reclining on the riverbank. The following is an interpretation of mine of the same text, though it was taken not on the Thames but in the gardens of Ninfa.