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...hill. But the religious fervor is not only limited to a renewed commitment to church-going. The religious ethos of Boston can be best felt outdoors. At Walden Pond, surrounded by basic natural elements--trees and water--you can imagine the epiphanies of Thoreau. Orchard House, home to Alcott family, Emerson House and The Fruitlands in Harvard, Mass., the religious communal farm of these New England thinkers and other transcendentalists, represent a quasi meeting of the minds, a convergence of the intellectual and the spiritual. The town of Salem and its gruesome but fascinating legacy of witches and trials conveys...
...movies from Nights of Cabiria to Natural Born Killers restore lost scenes; boxed sets of just about any recording artist you can think of--Why not the Zombies?--disgorge hours of studio outtakes. These have also been boom times for posthumous publication, with recent "new" work by Louisa May Alcott and Margaret Mitchell; next year Ernest Hemingway will give us his fourth book as a dead person. Publisher Charles Scribner 3rd says Hemingway fully intended these manuscripts to see the light of day, but cautions other authors that if they don't want work published, they had best destroy...
...complete works of Louisa May Alcott...
...students disapprove that only one aspect of ourselves, our classwork, is presented to our professors and section leaders. They usually do not get to know us as people. Would we feel differently about reading Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, a classic children's story, if we had previously read her other works published under a pseudonym? These thrillers were deemed too sensational to be published then: A Long, Fatal Love Chase, a story about obsessive love, is only now being published. But Alcott's other works should make no difference to us. Little Women could never be called sensationalist...
...page The Inheritance was written in Boston in 1849 when Alcott was just 17 years old and was given to the library by her family in July...