Eden's Outcasts

The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father

John Matteson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

512 Seiten

2008
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-33359-6 (ISBN)

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography

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.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.1.2009
Zusatzinfo	26 illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 211 mm
Gewicht	416 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-393-33359-0 / 0393333590
ISBN-13	978-0-393-33359-6 / 9780393333596
Zustand	Neuware