Concord Quartet Alcott, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau and the Friendship That Freed the American Mind

Name: Concord Quartet Alcott, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau and the Friendship That Freed the American Mind
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ISBN: 9780471646631

ISBN-10: 0471646636

ISBN-13: 9780471646631

Edition: 2006

Authors: Samuel A. Schreiner, Samuel Agnew Schreiner, Samuel A. Schreiner

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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 Menand's The Metaphysical Club. Samuel A. Schreiner Jr. (Darien, CT) is a veteran journalist, a former editor at Reader's Digest, and the author of many books,…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Canada, Limited
Publication date: 8/1/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.42" wide x 9.28" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Prologue



A Homecoming



A Meeting of Minds



A New Voice



A Man Who "Looks Answers"



"A Beacon Fire of Truth"



A Parting of the Ways



A President's Man



A Transcendental Martyr



A Time for Dying



A Long Good-bye


Bibliography


Index