Nook Farm: Mark Twain’s Hartford Circle

Kenneth Richmond Andrews

Published by Harvard University Press 1950

Nook Farm

Mark Twain’s Hartford Circle

Kenneth Richmond Andrews

https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674730755

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Mark Twain lived his most creative and happy years in Hartford's literary colony Nook Farm, where his neighbours and friends included Harriet Beecher Stowe, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Charles W. Warner, and other persons once well known. This is a readable social and intellectual history of a close-knit group of cultivated families, whose experience vividly exemplifies the difficulties and discoveries of the changing world of the 1870's and 1880's. Kenneth Andrews gives a lively and penetrating account of the religious experience of Mark Twain and his friends and of their day-to-day life and social and political ideas, and evaluates their writings in terms of their difficult adjustment to their times.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Acknowledgment Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
ILLUSTRATIONS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
1. THE COLONIZATION OF NOOK FARM 1851-1871 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE 1871-1891 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
3. THE VARIETIES OF SECULAR EXPERIENCE. 1871-1891 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
4. IDEAS OF AMERICA. 1871-1891 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
5. LITERATURE IN HARTFORD 1871-1891 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	144
6. THE DISSOLUTION OF NOOK FARM 1891-1918 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	216
APPENDIX A. Boy's Adventure Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281

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Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Copyright year: 1950
Edition: Reprint 2013
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Front matter: 12
- Main content: 288
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 15
Keywords: Twain, Mark, -- 1835-1910 -- Homes and haunts -- Connecticut -- Hartford; Hartford (Conn.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century; Twain, Mark, -- 1835-1910 -- Friends and associates; Nook Farm (Hartford, Conn.) -- History; Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography

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Published: October 1, 2013
ISBN: 9780674730755

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Published: December 11, 2013
ISBN: 9780674730793