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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A dark and marvelous journey from the Industrial Age through Hollywood's Golden Age, into the Digital Age and beyond.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Nathaniel Hawthorne pens a new tale to exact revenge on his ancestor, a notorious judge of the Salem witch trials Best known for his novel The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne was burdened by familial shame, which began with his great-great-grandfather John Hathorne, the infamously unrepentant Salem witch trial judge. In this, the eighth stand-alone book in The American Novels series, we witness Hawthorne writing a tale entitled Tooth of the Covenant, in which he sends his fictional surrogate, Isaac Page, back to the year 1692 to save Bridget Bishop, the first person executed for witchcraft, and rescue the other victims from execution. But when Page puts on Hathorne?s spectacles, his worldview is transformed and he loses his resolve. As he battles his conscience, he finds that it is his own life hanging in the balance.An ingenious and profound investigation into the very notion of universal truth and morality, Tooth of the Covenant probes storytelling?s depths to raise history?s dead and assuage the persistent ghost of guilt. …

Paperback. Condition: Good. A nineteenth-century army chaplain confesses his loss of faith in god and country to his first love, poet Emily Dickinson.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A nineteenth-century army chaplain confesses his loss of faith in god and country to his first love, poet Emily Dickinson.

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Huck Finn's mythic adventures--and childhood--abruptly end when he steps off his raft into Hurricane Katrina.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Huck Finn's mythic adventures--and childhood--abruptly end when he steps off his raft into Hurricane Katrina.

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Henry David Thoreau's principles are tested when a young man escapes from slavery into Walden Woods.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Henry David Thoreau's principles are tested when a young man escapes from slavery into Walden Woods.

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Nathaniel Hawthorne pens a new tale to exact revenge on his ancestor, a notorious judge of the Salem witch trials Best known for his novel The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne was burdened by familial shame, which began with his great-great-grandfather John Hathorne, the infamously unrepentant Salem witch trial judge. In this, the eighth stand-alone book in The American Novels series, we witness Hawthorne writing a tale entitled Tooth of the Covenant, in which he sends his fictional surrogate, Isaac Page, back to the year 1692 to save Bridget Bishop, the first person executed for witchcraft, and rescue the other victims from execution. But when Page puts on Hathorne?s spectacles, his worldview is transformed and he loses his resolve. As he battles his conscience, he finds that it is his own life hanging in the balance.An ingenious and profound investigation into the very notion of universal truth and morality, Tooth of the Covenant probes storytelling?s depths to raise history?s dead and assuage the persistent ghost of guilt. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A dark and marvelous journey from the Industrial Age through Hollywood's Golden Age, into the Digital Age and beyond.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. In the seventh American Novels series book, a young woman joins Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Barnum's circus to rescue her infant from the KKK.

Paperback. Condition: Good. In the seventh American Novels series book, a young woman joins Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Barnum's circus to rescue her infant from the KKK.

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Paperback. Condition: Good. A nineteenth-century army chaplain confesses his loss of faith in god and country to his first love, poet Emily Dickinson.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A nineteenth-century army chaplain confesses his loss of faith in god and country to his first love, poet Emily Dickinson.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Walt Whitman and Louisa May Alcott meet the horrors of the Civil War as they minister to its casualtiesAfter the Union Army?s defeat at Fredericksburg in 1862, Walt Whitman and Louisa May Alcott converge on Washington to nurse the sick, wounded, and dying. Whitman was a man of many contradictions: egocentric yet compassionate, impatient with religiosity yet moved by the spiritual in all humankind, bigoted yet soon to become known as the great poet of democracy. Alcott was an intense, intellectual, independent woman, an abolitionist and suffragist, who was compelled by financial circumstance to publish saccharine magazine stories yet would go on to write the enduring and beloved Little Women. As Lock captures the musicality of their unique voices and their encounters with luminaries ranging from Lincoln to battlefield photographer Mathew Brady to reformer Dorothea Dix, he deftly renders the war?s impact on their personal and artistic development.Inspired by Whitman?s poem ?The Wound-Dresser? and Alcott?s Hospital Sketches, the ninth stand-alone book in The American Novels series is a masterful dual portrait of two iconic authors who took different paths toward chronicling a country beset by prejudice and at war with itself.…

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.