Author: Concord Antiquarian Society. MuseumPublisher:
ISBN: 9780312584214
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Old Concord
Author: Allen FrenchPublisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 080953147X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
An Olde Concord Christmas
Author: Concord Antiquarian Society. MuseumPublisher:
ISBN: 9780312584214
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Old Concord, Her Highways and Byways
Author: Margaret SidneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Concord (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Author: Helen SimonsonPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 140880932X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Major Ernest Pettigrew is perfectly content to lead a quiet life in the sleepy village of Edgecombe St Mary, away from the meddling of the locals and his overbearing son. But when his brother dies, the Major finds himself seeking companionship with the village shopkeeper, Mrs Ali. Drawn together by a love of books and the loss of their partners, they are soon forced to contend with irate relatives and gossiping villagers. The perfect gentleman, but the most unlikely hero, the Major must ask himself what matters most: family obligation, tradition or love? Funny, comforting and heart-warming, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand proves that sometimes, against all odds, life does give you a second chance.
The Diamond in the Window
Author: Jane LangtonPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 9780064400428
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Eddy and Eleanor discover a secret attic room in their extraordinary house.
Bulletin
Author: Bulletin
Author: United States. Bureau of EntomologyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Entomology
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
Concord in the Days of Strawberries and Streetcars
Author: Renee GarrelickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Concord (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
"A topical portrayal of community life during the earlier days of this century as told through the memories of the town's long-time residents"--Pref., p. ix.
The Scene of the Battle, 1775
Author: Joyce Lee MalcolmPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Concord, Battle of, Concord, Mass., 1775
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Hawthorne in Concord
Author: Philip McFarlandPublisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 1555846882
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
A richly textured account of the writer’s three sojourns in New England “illuminates Hawthorne’s art and the intellectual ferment originating in that small, bucolic town” (Publishers Weekly). On his wedding day in 1842, Nathaniel Hawthorne escorted his new wife, Sophia, to their first home, the Old Manse in Concord, Massachusetts. There, enriched by friendships with Thoreau and Emerson, he enjoyed an idyllic time. But three years later, unable to make enough money from his writing, he returned ingloriously, with his wife and infant daughter, to live in his mother’s home in Salem. In 1853, Hawthorne moved back to Concord, now the renowned author of The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables. Eager to resume writing fiction at the scene of his earlier happiness, he assembled a biography of his college friend Franklin Pierce, who was running for president. When Pierce won the election, Hawthorne was appointed the lucrative post of consul in Liverpool. Coming home from Europe in 1860, Hawthorne settled down in Concord once more. He tried to take up writing one last time, but deteriorating health found him withdrawing into private life. In Hawthorne in Concord, acclaimed historian Philip McFarland paints a revealing portrait of this well-loved American author during three distinct periods of his life, spent in the bucolic village of Concord, Massachusetts. “I don’t know when I have read a book as satisfying as Hawthorne in Concord.” —David Herbert Donald