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Marguerite Young
Angel in the Forest is Marguerite Young's fascinating chronicle of two attempts to establish utopian communities in nineteenth-century America. In it, she recounts the strange tale of New Harmony, Indiana…
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J.T Ledbetter
Mark Van Doren, contemporary of Frost, Sandburg, and Robinson, and author of novels, short fiction, plays, and criticism, has long been considered one of America’s finest thinkers and writers. This…
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Mark van Doren
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by…
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Mark Van Doren
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…
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This is a new release of the original 1927 edition.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
In Goodhart Hall, Bryn Mawr College, October 5, 1956.
A treatment of Dryden’s non-dramatic verse, with attention to the celebrator, the satirist, the journalist, the singer, and the story-teller. Van Doren’s 1920 effort to brighten the most neglected side…
Mortal Summer, a classical and rare book that has been considered essential throughout human history, so that this work is never forgotten, we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in…
Reviews our understanding for how sex determination is initiated and how it results in sexual dimorphic development. This book discusses sexual development of the soma in C. elegans; sexual development…
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Discover the poetry of one of England's greatest writers with this insightful and engaging study of John Dryden's life and work. In "John Dryden", Mark Van Doren offers a detailed…
Doren deftly guides the reader though the sometime labyrinthine intricacies of Shakespeare’s rich and strange language, the better to reveal the mysteries at the heart of his achievement.
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Samuel Sewall,Mark Van Doren
William Bartram
First inexpensive, illustrated edition of early classic on American geography, plants, Indians, wildlife, early settlers. Influenced Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Chateaubriand. A book of extraordinary beauty. - The New York Times…
William Wordsworth
Edited by Mark Van Doren, this work has an introduction by David Bromwich.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
This is the first paperback edition of Marguerite Young’s fascinating chronicle of two attempts to establish utopian communities in nineteenth-century America.Angel in the Forest recounts the strange tale of New…
William 1739-1823 Bartram
Cotton 1663-1728 Mather
This biography tells the story of Sir William Phips, a seventeenth-century adventurer who became the first governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
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