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

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The 1850s were heady times in Concord, Massachusetts: in a town where a woman’s petticoat drying on an outside line used to be enough to elicit scandal, one of the greatest minds of our nation’s history were gathering in three of its wooden houses to establish a major American literary movement. The Transcendentalists, as these thinkers came to be known as, challenged the norms of American society with essays, novels, and treatises whose beautifully rendered prose and groundbreaking assertions still resonate with readers lately. Though noted recent writer Susan Cheever stands in awe of the monumental achievements of such writers as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Louisa May Alcott, her personal, evocative narrative eliminates these figures from their dusty pedestals and provides a full of life account of their longings, jealousies, and indiscretions. Thus, Cheever reminds us that the passion of Concord’s ambitious and temperamental resident geniuses used to be not at all confined to the page….

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