Amos Bronson Alcott, teacher, philosopher and father of Louisa May Alcott, keeps a year’s diary in his Concord study. He writes on his house and garden, self-privacy, Sunday lectures, genealogy, scholarship, the seasons and his neighbours, among them Emerson, Thoreau and Hawthorne, mixing observation with high-minded philosophy.
A gentle portrait of New England Transcendentalism from one of its original members. Download the free EPUB.