A Summer of Hummingbirds
Subtitle: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The; Penguin Press
Published: April 17, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781594201608
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Literary; Poetry; Biography & Autobiography / Literary; 19th century; History; Literature and history; Literature and society; United States; Women and literature
Table of contents: title: Part one : An oblique war.; title: A tea rose; title: The prodigal; title: Beecher's pockets; title: Tristes tropiques; title: Part two : At the Hotel Byron.; title: The prisoner of Chillon; title: Birds of passage; title: Covert flowers, hidden nests; title: Part three : Transits of Venus.; title: Foggy bottom; title: A route of evanescence; title: Florida; title: Epilogue : Toward the blue peninsula