Transcendental Wild Oats

Author : Louisa May Alcott
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 1557090963
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transcendental Wild Oats written by Louisa May Alcott and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS 38 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Bronson Alcott's Fruitlands With Transcendental Wild Oats, by Louisa May Alcott. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766180042.

Author : Louisa May Alcott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transcendental Wild Oats and Excerpts from the Fruitlands Diary written by Louisa May Alcott and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He set out to make his utopian dream come true-Bronson Alcott, his wife and four daughters, and an odd assortment of friends who knew more about philosophy than they did about farming. Would their experience at Fruitlands last through the hard New England winter? Transcendentalist commune is for readers of all ages who love Alcott, history, or just a good story told with humor and sensitivity.

Author : Louisa May Alcott
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781542765398
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transcendental Wild Oats written by Louisa May Alcott and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-25 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 - March 6, 1888) was an American novelist and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised by her transcendentalist parents, Abigail May and Amos Bronson Alcott in New England, she also grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau. Alcott's family suffered financial difficulties, and while she worked to help support the family from an early age, she also sought an outlet in writing. She began to receive critical success for her writing in the 1860s. Early in her career, she sometimes used the pen name A. M. Barnard, under which she wrote novels for young adults. Published in 1868, Little Women is set in the Alcott family home, Hillside, later called the Wayside, in Concord, Massachusetts and is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters. The novel was very well received and is still a popular children's novel today, filmed several times. Alcott was an abolitionist and a feminist and remained unmarried throughout her life. She died in Boston on March 6, 1888. Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, which is now part of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on her father's 33rd birthday. She was the daughter of transcendentalist and educator Amos Bronson Alcott and social worker Abby May and the second of four daughters: Anna Bronson Alcott was the eldest; Elizabeth Sewall Alcott and Abigail May Alcott were the two youngest.

Author : Louisa May Alcott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781463657642
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transcendental Wild Oats written by Louisa May Alcott and published by . This book was released on 2011-06-26 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transcendental Wild Oats: A Chapter from an Unwritten Romance is a prose seething satire of a somewhat Utopian community and her family's involvement with the Transcendentalists of the Fruitlands in the early part of the 1840s. Alcott's tale supplies the reader with a rendering of real people in her life whose names are nothing more than thinly masked pseudonyms. Her father, Amos Bronson Alcott is "Abel Lamb" is the name she used for her father, Amos Bronson Alcott. His partner, Charles Lane is the community co-founder "Timon Lion." Her mother, Abigail May Alcott is "Sister Hope" in the story. Alcott paints a picture her father as prevailed upon by his strong-arming partner, Timon. Both men are hopelessly impractical escapists in the world of fantasy and spend their time in pointless debates while Sister Hope works incessantly to maintain a realistic, but bare-boned existence. A crisis arises at harvest time, when the grain crop is threatened by an approaching storm. In Alcott's words, "About the time the grain was ready to house, some call of the Oversoul wafted all the men away." Sister Hope organizes the only available help, three little girls and a boy, and manages to save the crop. The little community collapses as soon as the weather turns cold, when it becomes clear that their provisions are too meager to last the entire winter. Timon Lion and his son leave to to become Shakers and Abel is crushed by the failure of his enterprise.

Author : Louisa May Alcott
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813512723
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alternative Alcott written by Louisa May Alcott and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery in recent years of Louisa May Alcott's pseudonymous sensation stories has made readers and scholars increasingly aware of her accomplishments beyond her most famous novel, Little Women, one of the great international best-sellers of all time. This anthology brings together for the first time a variety of Louisa May Alcott's journalistic, satiric, feminist, and sensation texts. Elaine Showalter has provided an excellent introduction and notes to the collection.

Author : Richard Francis
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300169442
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fruitlands written by Richard Francis and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a definitive account of Fruitlands, one of history's most unsuccessful, but most significant, utopian experiments. It was established in Massachusetts in 1843 by Bronson Alcott (whose ten year old daughter Louisa May, future author of Little Women, was among the members) and an Englishman called Charles Lane, under the watchful gaze of Emerson, Thoreau, and other New England intellectuals. Alcott and Lane developed their own version of the doctrine known as Transcendentalism, hoping to transform society and redeem the environment through a strict regime of veganism and celibacy. But physical suffering and emotional conflict, particularly between Lane and Alcott's wife, Abigail, made the community unsustainable. Drawing on the letters and diaries of those involved, the author explores the relationship between the complex philosophical beliefs held by Alcott, Lane, and their fellow idealists and their day to day lives. The result is a vivid and often very funny narrative of their travails, demonstrating the dilemmas and conflicts inherent to any utopian experiment and shedding light on a fascinating period of American history.

Author : Louisa May Alcott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silver Pitchers: and Independence written by Louisa May Alcott and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Louisa May Alcott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781515426486
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little Women Letters from the House of Alcott written by Louisa May Alcott and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrew Delbanco
Publisher : Belknap Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674335479
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing New England written by Andrew Delbanco and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized thematically, this anthology provides a collective self-portrait of the New England mind. With an introductory essay on the origins of New England, a detailed chronology, and explanatory headnotes for each selection, the book is a welcoming introduction to a great American literary tradition and a treasury of vivid writing that defines what it has meant, over nearly four centuries, to be a New Englander.

Author : Candace Ward
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486111083
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Short Stories by American Women written by Candace Ward and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choice collection of 13 stories includes "Life in the Iron Mills" by Rebecca Harding Davis, Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat," plus superb fiction by Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, many others.