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American Bloomsbury

Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work

American Bloomsbury( )
Author: Cheever, Susan
ISBN:978-0-7432-6462-4
Publication Date:Sep 2007
Publisher:Simon & Schuster
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $16.99
Book Description:

The 1850s were heady times in Concord, Massachusetts: in a town where a woman's petticoat drying on an outdoor line was enough to elicit scandal, some of the greatest minds of our nation's history were gathering in three of its wooden houses to establish a major American literary movement. The Transcendentalists, as these thinkers came to be called, challenged the norms of American society with essays, novels, and treatises whose beautifully rendered prose and groundbreaking...
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Book Details
Pages:240
Detailed Subjects: Literary Criticism / American / General
Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.125 x 9.25 x 0.7 Inches
Book Weight:0.708 Pounds
Author Biography
Cheever, Susan (Author)
Susan Cheever, the daughter of the great American writer John Cheever, is the author of nine previous books, including Home Before Dark, a best-selling memoir about her father, & the novel Looking for Work. She has written award-winning articles on parenting for New York Newsday & is a contributing writer to Architectural Digest. She teaches writing at Bennington College & Yale University & lives in New York.

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