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American Bloomsbury : Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau : their lives, their loves, their work by Susan Cheever is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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Even the most devoted readers of nineteenth-century American literature often assume that the men and women behind the masterpieces were as dull and staid as the era's static daguerreotypes. Susan Cheever's latest work, however, brings new life to the well-known literary personages who produced such cherished works as <i>The Scarlet Letter, Moby-Dick, Walden</i>, and <i>Little Women</i>. Rendering in full color the tumultuous, often scandalous lives of these volatile and vulnerable geniuses, Cheever's dynamic narrative reminds us that, while these literary heroes now seem secure of their spots in the canon, they were once considered avant-garde, bohemian types, at odds with the establishment. <p>These remarkable men and women were so improbably concentrated in placid Concord, Massachusetts, that Henry James referred to the town as the "biggest little place in America." Among the host of luminaries who floated in and out of Concord's "American Bloomsbury" as satellites of the venerable intellect and prodigious fortune of Ralph Waldo Emerson were Henry David Thoreau -- perpetual second to his mentor in both love and career; Louisa May Alcott -- dreamy girl and ambitious spinster; Na
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- Author
- Susan Cheever
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780743264624
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Memoir
- Rating
- 3.58 / 5 (64 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14