Гордон Стюарт Вуд0.0 From the most respected chronicler of the early days of the Republic and winner of both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes comes a landmark work that rescues Benjamin Franklin from a mythology that has blinded generations of Americans to the man he really was and makes sense of aspects of his life and career that would have otherwise remained mysterious. In place of the genial polymath, self-improver, and quintessential American, Gordon S. Wood reveals a figure much more ambiguous and complex and much more interesting. Charting the passage of Franklin’s life and reputation from relative popular indifference (his death, while the occasion for mass mourning in France, was widely ignored in America) to posthumous glory, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin sheds invaluable light on the emergence of our country’s idea of itself.
Мег Розофф3.6 «Все изменилось тем летом, когда я приехала в гости к своим английским кузенам. Отчасти так получилось из-за войны, война вообще многое изменила, но я почти не помню жизни до войны, так что в этой книге — моей книге — довоенная жизнь не в счет.
Почти все изменилось из-за Эдмунда.
Вот как это случилось.»
Мег Розофф — автор книг для детей и подростков, член Королевского литературного общества, лауреат премии Астрид Линдгрен. Родилась в США, но живет в Англии.
«Как я теперь живу» — ее дебютный роман, который сразу стал бестселлером, был переведен на несколько языков, удостоен множества премий, по нему сняли фильм. Это антиутопия, в которой смешиваются мир подростка, головокружительная любовь и война — жестокая, не всегда явная, но от этого не менее страшная.
W. Barksdale Maynard0.0 Perhaps no other natural setting has as much literary, spiritual, and environmental significance for Americans as Walden Pond. Some 700,000 people visit the pond annually, and countless others journey to Walden in their mind, to contemplate the man who lived there and what the place means to us today.
Here is the first history of the Massachusetts pond Thoreau made famous 150 years ago. W. Barksdale Maynard offers a lively and comprehensive account of Walden Pond from the early nineteenth century to the present. From Thoreau's first visit at age 4 in 1821--"That woodland vision for a long time made the drapery of my dreams"--to today's efforts both to conserve the pond and allow public access, Maynard captures Walden Pond's history and the role it has played in social, cultural, literary, and environmental movements in America. Along the way Maynard details the geography of the pond; Thoreau's and Emerson's experiences of Walden over their lifetimes; the development of the cult of Thoreau and the growth of the pond as a site of literary and spiritual pilgrimages; rock star Don Henley's Walden Woods Project and the much publicized battle to protect the pond from developers in the 1980s; and the vitally important ecological symbol Walden Pond has become today.
Exhaustively researched, vividly written, and illustrated with historical photographs and the most detailed maps of Thoreau country yet created, Walden Pond: A History reveals how an ordinary pond has come to be such an extraordinarily inspiring symbol.
