Books tagged: transcendentalism

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The Significance of Being Frank: The Life and Times of Franklin Benjamin Sanborn    by Tom Foran Clark
Price: Free! 96270 words. Published on October 5, 2009. .

"The intimate details of Clark's narrative brings Sanborn's Transcendentalist world to life. This remarkable biography produces for the reader a direct sense of the social nerve and intellectual daring of 19th Century New England. Clark has done an outstanding job in the art of biography." -- Danne Polk, The Philosophy Research Base.
Floracognition    by Anita Crowdagger
Price: $2.99 USD. 840 words. Published on December 30, 2009. .

This anthology of poems focuses on the beauty of nature while exploring common themes of human interaction.
Thumbing Through Thoreau: A Book of Quotations by Henry David Thoreau    by Kenny Luck
Price: $4.99 USD. 11560 words. Published by Tribute Books on April 21, 2010. .

Author Kenny Luck has thumbed through Thoreau’s voluminous journals, correspondences and other publications to make this the most comprehensive collection of Thoreau aphorisms available. Illustrators Jay Luke and Ren Adams lend their talents to artistically interpret Thoreau's vision. Each quote is accompanied by an original drawing.
Migrations, Volume I : Don't Forget to Breathe    by Ashim Shanker
Price: Free! 97110 words. Published on September 23, 2010. .

"...he could imagine the Dust spiraling in corners, plotting en masse an elaborate offensive upon those who sought seclusion from the outside Universe. The Dust: it was older than Time, bound by its allegiance to the Tangible—to the very Physical Substance of creation— to make pointed attacks fueled by conspiracy upon its bitter rival, the amorphously-composed Intangible Will.." (p.202)
The Quiet Radical - The Biography of Samuel Longfellow    by Joe Abdo
Price: $4.99 USD. 112070 words. Published on May 12, 2011. .

The Quiet Radical: The Biography of Samuel Longfellow grew out of my first book, On the Edge of History, about the Dabney family in the Azores for whom Samuel was the children’s tutor. Samuel is better known as the youngest brother of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, but he was an important personality during the 19th century and this book provides a glance at life in Boston during his lifetime.