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Beneath the second sun : a cultural history of Indian summer / Adam Sweeting.

Title: Beneath the second sun : a cultural history of Indian summer / Adam Sweeting.
Author: Sweeting, Adam W., 1963-
Publication: Hanover : University Press of New England, c2003.

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Description

xii, 191 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Celia Thaxter was already a popular poet when she began to publish the essays of Among the Isles of Shoals in the Atlantic Monthly in 1869; they were an immediate sensation. Charles Dickens called Thaxter's essays "admirable" and Horace Greeley declared, "The best prose writing I have seen for a long time is Mrs. Thaxter's 'Isles of Shoals' in the Atlantic. Her pen-pictures are wonderfully well-done."" "Published as a book in 1873, Among the Isles of Shoals remained equally popular, printed not only in hardcover but also in a fifty-cent guidebook edition which was sold in railway stations. Now generally considered to be Thaxter's masterpiece, Among the Isles of Shoals is available once again in this new edition." "Thaxter herself was raised on the Isles of Shoals, a group of nine small, rocky islands off the coast of New Hampshire, and she lived there off and on for much of her life. This lyrical volume seamlessly blends natural history, oral tradition, and personal observation to create a work that one critic says "[feels] somehow distilled from the islands themselves."" "The landscape of the Isles of Shoals has changed little since the time when Thaxter wrote this tribute, but as the Hartford Courant noted upon its original publication, "whether the traveler goes to these isles or not, if he has this little volume in his pocket, wherever he is he will have a most charming companion.""--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Revisiting New England

Uniform Title

Revisiting New England.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-186) and index.

ISBN

1584653302 (cloth : alk. paper)
1584653140

LCCN

2003004352

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries