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Author
Physical Desc
216 p.
Language
English
Description
Homecoming, haunting, nostalgia, desire. These are some of the themes evoked by the beguiling image of the lighted window. In this innovative book, Peter Davidson is our guide, taking us on atmospheric walks through nocturnal cities in Britain, Europe, North America, and the field paths of rural England.
Surveying a wide range of material, the book extends from early romantic painting to contemporary fiction. Davidson features familiar lighted windows...
Author
Publisher
Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Pub. Date
c1893
Edition
Riverside ed.
Physical Desc
x, 442 p. : 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Posthumously published in 1864, The Maine Woods depicts Henry David Thoreau's experiences in the forests of Maine, and expands on the author's transcendental theories on the relation of humanity to Nature. On Mount Katahdin, he faces a primal, untamed Nature. Katahdin is a place "not even scarred by man, but it was a specimen of what God saw fit to make this world." In Maine he comes in contact with "rocks, trees, wind and solid earth" as though he...
3) Cape Cod
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton, Mifflin
Pub. Date
c1893
Edition
New Riverside ed.
Physical Desc
336 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Robert Pinsky is Professor of English at Boston University and an editor of the weekly online magazine Slate. He is the author of many books of poetry and literary criticism. He served two terms as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, 1997-2000.
This new paperback edition of Henry D. Thoreau's compelling account of Cape Cod contains the complete, definitive text of the original. Introduced by American poet...
Author
Publisher
Longmans, Green and Co
Pub. Date
1902
Physical Desc
xv, 448 p. : illus. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hilaire Belloc's best work - according to the author, as well as most critics - The Path to Rome is less concerned with Rome itself than with a pilgrim's journey to the Eternal City. A spirited Catholic apologist, Belloc traveled on foot from Toul (near Nancy), France, and crossed the Alps and the Apennines in order to, in his words, "see all Europe which the Christian Faith has saved." Afterward, he turned his pen from his usual polemics to literature,...
Author
Publisher
Dodd, Mead
Pub. Date
1901
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
2 v. in 1 : front., illus. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1832, three years before Alexis de Tocqueville published Democracy in America, the English novelist Frances Trollope released Domestic Manners of the Americans, an eye-opening record of her travels in the young republic. Expecting a utopia of "justice and liberty for all," she is shocked to discover the contradictions at the heart of the American character. Funny and fearless, Trollope's biting critique became an international sensation. Yet, as...
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