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Angel in the Forest
- A Fairy Tale of Two Utopias
Engelsk Paperback
Angel in the Forest
- A Fairy Tale of Two Utopias
Engelsk Paperback

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Angel in the Forest is Marguerite Young''s fascinating chronicle of two attempts to establish utopian communities in nineteenth-century America.
In it, she  recounts the strange tale of New Harmony, Indiana, a community originally founded in 1814 by the German mystic Father George Rapp, who wanted to apply Scriptural communism to daily life in order to bring about the New Jerusalem. It was sold in 1825 to Robert Owen, the father of British socialism who, with a group of English immigrants, implemented his own theories for a perfect community, this time based on rationalism.
Both experiments failed, but Young finds in both a distinctively American yearning for utopia, which continues to characterize the American spirit to this day: a tradition of faith and folly can be traced from Owen''s New Moral World to George Bush''s New World Order.
Written with the same elegance, wit, and lyric beauty that distinguishes her fiction, Angel in the Forest was widely praised upon its first publication in 1945. This edition includes Mark Van Doren''s introduction to Scribner''s 1966 reprint.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
331
ISBN-13:
9781628975512
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1628975512
Udg. Dato:
26 dec 2024
Længde:
28mm
Bredde:
216mm
Højde:
139mm
Forlag:
Dalkey Archive Press
Oplagsdato:
26 dec 2024
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