The Simple Life: Plain Living And High Thinking In American Culture
Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, New York, 1985
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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- Title
- The Simple Life: Plain Living And High Thinking In American Culture
- Author
- Shi, David E.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, New York
- Publication year
- 1985
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- Almost Like New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0195034759
- ISBN 13
- 9780195034752
- Edition
- First Printing
- Seller catalogs
- American Cultural, Political & Social Commentary, American Literature Studies
Traces a persistent strain in American thought and conduct: the effort to turn away from materialistic society and to live instead a `simple life' devoted to plain living and things of the mind and spirit.
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