Concord Quartet - Alcott, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau Friendship That Freed American

Informationen zum Autor Samuel A. Schreiner Jr., a veteran journalist and former senior editor at "Reader's Digest," is the author of both novels and nonfiction, including "The Trials of Mrs. Lincoln, Henry Clay Frick: The Gospel of Greed," and "The Passionate Beechers: A Family Saga of Sanctity and Scandal That Changed America." He lives in Darien, Connecticut. Klappentext From the 1830s onward, Concord, Massachusetts was home to Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Amos Bronson Alcott. This absorbing book brings these four men to life and shows how their friendship helped shape American Transcendentalism. Deftly interweaving the everyday dramas of their lives-the romantic attachments, disappointments, disagreements, sicknesses, and sorrows-with a lucid account of their works and the development of Transcendentalism, this book will be a treat for anyone who enjoyed Louis Menands The Metaphysical Club. Samuel A. Schreiner Jr. (Darien, CT) is a veteran journalist, a former editor at Readers Digest, and the author of many books, including The Trials of Mrs. Lincoln (0-8032-9325-9), Henry Clay Frick (0-312-11821-X), and The Passionate Beechers (0-471-41484-0)

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Samuel A Schreiner, Samuel A. Schreiner, Samuel Agnew Schreiner
• Verlag: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 22.08.2006
• EAN: 9780471646631
• ISBN: 978-0-471-64663-1
• Seiten: 256
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft