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Travel - A Friend in the Library: Volume II - A Practical Guide to the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes
Travel - A Friend in the Library: Volume II - A Practical Guide to the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes
Travel - A Friend in the Library: Volume II - A Practical Guide to the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Travel - A Friend in the Library: Volume II - A Practical Guide to the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Eva March Tappan's “A Friend in the Library” series is a comprehensive guide to the writings of six seminal American writers, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. In her second volume she explores the various different places these writers travelled to and wrote about. This book is highly recommend for those with an interest in American literature, history, and culture. Eva March Tappan (1854 – 1930) was an American author and teacher. Other notable works by this author include: “Adventures & Achievements” (1900), “Poems & Rhymes” (1900), and “In the Days of Queen Elizabeth” (1902). Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author. This book was first published in 1909.
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Release dateFeb 7, 2018
ISBN9781528784719
Travel - A Friend in the Library: Volume II - A Practical Guide to the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes

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    Travel - A Friend in the Library - Eva March Tappan

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    IT once came to pass that I was requested to read some notes of travel written by a lady who had gone over an exceedingly interesting route. At the end of the manuscript, my first thought was, How glad I am that I was not obliged to take that journey with her! Judging by what she had written, the only places that had aroused her enthusiasm were those at which she had found well-prepared dinners, and she had passed through that delightful country with hardly a thought of its beauty or its associations. The old Roman Seneca was right when he said, more than eighteen hundred years ago, He that would make his travels delightful must first make himself delightful. That is why traveling in books is such a pleasure. You can choose whatever route you like, and you can be sure of good company. Moreover, if the time comes when you are tired of even the best society, you can close the book without a By your leave, and wander away into some wonderland of the imagination not mentioned in the

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