Rural hours / Susan Fenimore Cooper ; introduction by David Jones.
Material type: TextPublisher: Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 1995Copyright date: ©1968Edition: First paperback editionDescription: xxxviii, 337 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 18 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0815603177
- 9780815603177
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | NonFiction | 508.747 C778 | Available | 33111010503064 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Nature and the mid nineteenth-century American landscape is beautifully revealed in this journal of the seasons. Susan Fennimore Cooper, daughter of the great American novelist, wrote this book in 1850, four years before Walden was published. She described it as her ?simple record of those little events which make up the course of the seasons in rural life.?
As with the works of Thoreau and others in this contemplative genre, including that of Joseph Wood Krutch and Henry Besten, Cooper's work, with its treasury of information about a way of life of which only remnants remain, is for the nature lover, the folklorist, and history buff.
This is the first paperback edition of a book that, when it was originally published, William Cullen Bryant called? one of the sweetest books ever printed.? It went through several editions during Cooper's life and was very popular in the United States and England.
"York State Books"--Half title page.
Includes index.
Previously published: Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 1968.