Henry James 
The Diary of a Man of Fifty 

‘When a man has reached his fifty-second year without being, materially, the worse for wear—when he has fair health, a fair fortune, a tidy conscience and a complete exemption from embarrassing relatives—I suppose he is bound, in delicacy, to write himself happy…’ ‘The Diary of a Man of Fifty’ is a romantic tale of a middle aged man who gets a second chance to marry the love of his life, now a widow.