Robert D Richardson – Three Roads Back- How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives (retail) (epub)
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Name: Robert D Richardson – Three Roads Back- How Emerson, Thoreau, and William James Responded to the Greatest Losses of Their Lives (retail) (epub)
Format: epub
Size: 2.01 MB
Book:
Title: Three Roads Back
Author: Robert D. Richardson
Language: English
Year: 2014
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9781445621753
Total pages: 96 str.
Description:
From their acclaimed biographer, a final, powerful book about how Emerson, Thoreau, and William James forged resilience from devastating loss, changing the course of American thought
In Three Roads Back, Robert Richardson, the author of magisterial biographies of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and William James, tells the connected stories of how these foundational American writers and thinkers dealt with personal tragedies early in their careers. For Emerson, it was the death of his young wife and, eleven years later, his five-year-old son; for Thoreau, it was the death of his brother; and for James, it was the death of his beloved cousin Minnie Temple. Filled with rich biographical detail and unforgettable passages from the journals and letters of Emerson, Thoreau, and James, these vivid and moving stories of loss and hard-fought resilience show how the writers’ responses to these deaths helped spur them on to their greatest work, influencing the…
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