Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father

Matteson, John

ISBN 10: 0393333590 / ISBN 13: 9780393333596

Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company, 2008

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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 fame. The other prize she deeply coveted--her father's understanding--seemed hardest to win. This story of Bronson and Louisa's tense yet loving relationship adds dimensions to Louisa's life, her work, and the relationships of fathers and daughters.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: John Matteson was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Biography for Eden's Outcasts and the Ann M. Sperber Prize for The Lives of Margaret Fuller. A Distinguished Professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, he lives in the Bronx.

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Titel: Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May ...
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Good
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