An editor of Harper’s who knew many of his subjects writes on Emerson and the village of Concord with Walden Pond nearby, on Hawthorne and his works, the actress Rachel, Thackeray’s American lecture tours, Sir Philip Sidney, Longfellow and Oliver Wendell Holmes, mixing personal recollection with appreciation.
Graceful portraits of the American literary world of the mid-nineteenth century from someone inside it. Download the free EPUB.