American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: their lives, their loves, their work [First Simon & Schuster trade pbk. edition] 9780743298704, 0743298705

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Table of contents :
Concord, Massachusetts --
The Alcotts arrive for the first time --
Louisa, girl interrupted --
Louisa in love...Henry David Thoreau --
Sic Vita --
Two loves --
Ellen Sewall --
Money --
Emerson pays for everything --
Two deaths --
The curse of Salem --
Hawthorne emerges --
The execution --
Another triangle --
Bronson Alcott, peddler turned pedant --
Fruitlands --
Sex --
Thoreau goes to New York City --
Wall of fire --
Walden Pond --
Margaret Fuller, the sexy muse --
Rome --
The Margaret ghost --
Hawthorne leaves Salem forever --
Stockbridge --
Melville --
The railroad --
Community --
Without Margaret --
Louisa May Alcott returns --
Louisa in Boston --
Concord again --
Walden, Walden --
Thoreau now --
Leaving Walden --
The birth and death of Margaret Fuller --
Shipwreck --
The Hawthornes' return to Concord --
President Frank --
Bayonets and bullets --
Local martyr --
The death of Thoreau --
Louisa in Washington, D.C. --
Return and illness --
Hawthorne leaves Concord --
Death --
Little Women --
Emerson and the fire --
Concord, today.

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