Van Wyck Brooks

In this volume, first published in 1947, Pulitzer Prize winning author Van Wyck Brooks gives a superb recreation of a segment of American literary history, namely the period from approximately the 1840's through to the 1890's. Those were the days of Melville, Whitman, Mark Twain, Lanier, Bret Harte, Audubon, John Muir and a host of other major and minor writers. No other American critic quite possesses Brooks' gift for making you see and feel and...

Chamson's The Road is the simple story of a French peasant who leaves the countryside to make his living as an artisan in a nearby town. But he never forgets his love of the mountains of his boyhood. When he is an old man, his wife passes away, and the man returns to the rural farm of his youth to live once again in the landscape he has always loved best." (Gale Literature Resource Center, accessed 12/17/2019)