Цитаты из книг — Джон Пауэлл

From an early age, literature influenced her thoughts. Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, which the March sisters in Little Women read and from which Alcott took many of the novel's chapter titles, was a family favorite. Modern writers also figured prominently: Scott, Goethe, Hawthorne, Frederika Bremer, and Fanny Burney. But…

ALCOTT, LOUISA MAY (1832-1888). Louisa May Alcott, U.S. author, was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, and raised in Boston and Concord, Massachusetts. Her father Bronson Alcott, a leading Transcendentalist and friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson, founded the Fruitlands utopian community (1843- 1844). However, because of his…

Henry Adams was a man at odds with his world. Adams took the ideas of Agassiz, Lyell, and Comte to tell the history of the decline of Western society. Comte's stages of human thought were adopted by Adams, but it was the the- ological stage that was now highest. So, too, did Adams absorb the varying philosophies of…