| American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Th Contributor(s): Cheever, Susan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0743264622 ISBN-13: 9780743264624 Publisher: Simon & Schuster OUR PRICE: $16.14 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2007 Annotation: Between 1840 and 1868, Concord, Massachusetts, was home to such writers as Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. In this fascinating history, noted author Cheever explores how Concord developed into the first American community devoted to idealism. of photos. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.59" H x 6.13" W x 9.33" (0.63 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - New England - Geographic Orientation - Massachusetts |
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| Publisher 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 |
Contributor Bio(s): Cheever, Susan: - Susan Cheever is the bestselling author of thirteen previous books, including five novels and the memoirs Note Found in a Bottle and Home Before Dark. Her work has been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Boston Globe Winship Medal. She is a Guggenheim Fellow, a member of the Corporation of Yaddo, and a member of the Author's Guild Council. She teaches in the Bennington College M.F.A. program. She lives in New York City with her family. |