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

from MaowangVater

This is an entertaining introduction to the Transcendentalists, the group of American writers and thinkers that gathered around Concord, Massachusetts in the nineteenth century. Cheever does this by alternating thematic biographical sketches to which she adds her critical comments. The time line ...

from mcintoshcollege

This amazing bunch of neighbors and authors have long held my personal interest and attention. Through their journals, novels and writings they have allowed their readers access to private thoughts and beliefs and I was excited to see someone had taken on the task of exploring them as a group. Su...

from pennsylady

The time: mid 1800's The place: Concord, Massachusetts "biggest little place in America," (Henry James) Susan Cheever explores the intersecting personal lives of a group of friends, who we acknowledge as an extraordinary group of writers. The "Concord gang" would include literary residents such a...

from MaowangVater

This is an entertaining introduction to the Transcendentalists, the group of American writers and thinkers that gathered around Concord, Massachusetts in the nineteenth century. Cheever does this by alternating thematic biographical sketches to which she adds her critical comments. The time line ...

from BeachWriter

We know them all from high school English: The founding fathers (and mothers) of American literature. But Susan Cheever takes our knowledge a step further: Louisa May Alcott lived next door to Emerson and had a crush on Thoreau; Nathaniel Hawthorne was a ladies' man who married the sister of one ...