American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work
5 best books like American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work (Susan Cheever): The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, The Art of Living
| Author | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| ISBN | 1406501336 |
Abjuring the city for a pastoral life, a group of utopians set out to reform a dissipated America. But the group is a powerful mix of competing ambitions and its idealism finds little satisfaction in farmwork. Instead, of changing the world, the members of the Blithedale community individually pursue...
| Author | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| ISBN | 0192839764 |
The fragility-and the durability-of human life and art dominate this story of American expatriates in Italy in the mid-nineteenth century. Befriended by Donatello, a young Italian with the classical grace of the "Marble Faun," Miriam, Hilda, and Kenyon find their pursuit of art taking a sinister...
| Author | John Matteson |
| ISBN | 0393059642 |
Louisa May Alcott is known universally. Yet during Louisa's youth, the famous Alcott was her father, Bronson, an eminent teacher and a friend of Emerson and Thoreau. He desired perfection, for the world and from his family. Louisa challenged him with her mercurial moods and yearnings for money and...
| Author | Margaret Fuller |
| ISBN | 0486406628 |
A woman of many gifts, Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) is most aptly remembered as America's first true feminist. In her brief yet fruitful life, she was variously author, editor, literary and social critic, journalist, poet, and revolutionary. She was also one of the few female members of the prestigious...
| Author | Thich Nhat Hanh |
| ISBN | 1846045096 |
Master the art of living from one of the world’s most revered spiritual leaders.
Thich Nhat Hanh, the world’s most renowned Zen master, turns his mindful attention to the most important subject of all – the art of living.
The bestselling author of The Miracle of Mindfulness...
