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1st ed. |
| Description |
xv, 289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-274) and index. |
| Contents |
Part one: New York. Thomas Paine: New Rochelle would drink with you now -- James Fenimore Cooper: Natty Bumppo, Where are you when we need you? -- Washington Irving: Writing on the sunny side at Sunnyside -- Horace Greeley: In Chappaqua, Shades of a sometime prophet -- Walt Whitman: A vision of America from "Fish-shape Paumanok" -- When you're in the vicinity of : The Bronx, New York: Edgar Allan Poe ; Roslyn, Long Island: Christopher Morley ; West Park, New York: John Burroughs ; East Aurora, New York: Elbert Hubbard ; Dresden, New York: Robert G. Ingersoll -- Part two: New England. Bronson Alcott and Fruitlands: Mirror on a divine insanity -- Ralph Waldo Emerson: Squire of Concord, sage of New England transcendentalism -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: a Yankee on Olympus -- Nathaniel Hawthorne: Novelist of New England's bleakest past -- Herman Melville: a stormy passage over the sea of life -- Emily Dickinson: from rural Amherst, "Love letters' to the world -- Mark Twain: Walt Disney would not have so dared in Hartford -- Harriet Beecher Stowe: the gentle New England lady who rocked a nation -- When you're in the vicinity of : Concord Massachusetts: Louisa May Alcott ; Cummington, Massachusetts / Henry David Thoreau ; New York City: William Cullen Bryant ; Haverill, Massachusetts: John Greenleaf Whittier ; Lenox, Massachusetts: Edith Wharton ; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Mount Auburn Cemetery ; Cape Cod, Massachusetts: Henry Beston, Joseph C. Lincoln -- New London and Waterford, Connecticut: Eugene O'Neill ; Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Thomas Bailey Aldrich ; Jaffrey, New Hampshire; New York City: Willa Cather -- Ripton, Vermont: Robert Frost ; Franconia, New Hampshire: Robert Frost ; South Berwick, Maine: Sarah Orne Jewett ; Camden, Maine: Edna St. Vincent Millay ; Gardiner, Maine: Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Part three. Some foreign writers remembered. Teilhard de Chardin: In New York City, a sad, sad ending -- When you're in the vicinity of : Middletown, Rhode Island: George Berkeley ; Saranac Lake, New York: Robert Louis Stevenson ; Brattleboro, Vermont: Rudyard Kipling. |
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Literary landmarks -- New York (State)
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Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State)
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Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- New England.
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New York (State) -- Intellectual life.
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Literary landmarks -- New England.
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New England -- Intellectual life.
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Authors, American -- Homes and haunts.
(OCoLC)fst00821779
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Intellectual life. (OCoLC)fst00975769
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Literary landmarks. (OCoLC)fst00999933
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New England. (OCoLC)fst01241913
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New York (State) (OCoLC)fst01210280
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
0836271025 : pbk. |
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9780836271027 : pbk |
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0836271017 (pbk.)39 |
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9780836271010 (pbk.) |
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