A Terrible Beauty : The Wilderness of American Literature by Jonah Raskin

A Terrible Beauty : The Wilderness of American Literature

Jonah Raskin

370 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

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Shortly before he published Walden; or Life in the Woods, Henry David Thoreau called "The library a wilderness of books." He also noted that while Americans were "clearing the forest in our westward progress, we are accumulating a forest of books ...

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