| The Pioneer Valley Reader Contributor(s): O'Connell, James C. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0936399716 ISBN-13: 9780936399713 Publisher: Countryman Press OUR PRICE: $25.16 Product Type: Hardcover Published: September 1995 Annotation: A companion volume to the successful Berkshire Reader, The Pioneer Valley Reader brings together three centuries of prose and poetry from the Connecticut River Valley in Massachusettshome of poets and divines, historians and novelists, politicians and sports professionals, farmers and hippies, rebels and philosophers. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Anthologies (multiple Authors) |
| Dewey: 810.997 |
| LCCN: 95008414 |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.38" W x 9.31" (1.46 lbs) 384 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - New England - Geographic Orientation - Massachusetts |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This anthology brings together four centuries of writings from Western Massachusetts' Connecticut River Valley, dozens of representative selections of great poise and poetry to show the unique place in American culture occupied by the Pioneer Valley and its cities and towns. Writers include Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Parker Willis, William Cullen Bryant, Emily Dickinson, Richard Wilbur, Sylvia Plath, Tracy Kidder, William Pynchon, and John McPhee. |