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My Wars Are Laid Away in Books

✍ Scribed by Habegger, Alfred

Book ID
110460187
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Year
2001
Tongue
English
Weight
2 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781588361301

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Emily Dickinson, probably the most loved and certainly the greatest of American poets, continues to be seen as the most elusive. One reason she has become a timeless icon of mystery for many readers is that her developmental phases have not been clarified. In this exhaustively researched biography, Alfred Habegger presents the first thorough account of Dickinson's growth--a richly contextualized story of genius in the process of formation and then in the act of overwhelming production.

Building on the work of former and contemporary scholars, My Wars Are Laid Away in Books brings to light a wide range of new material from legal archives, congregational records, contemporary women's writing, and previously unpublished fragments of Dickinson's own letters. Habegger discovers the best available answers to the pressing questions about the poet: Was she lesbian? Who was the person she evidently loved? Why did she refuse to publish and why was this refusal so...

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