Among the Isles of Shoals

by Celia Laighton Thaxter

Book Overview

Celia Thaxter was already a popular poet when she began to publish the essays of Among the Isles of Shoals in the Atlantic Monthly in 1869; they were an immediate sensation. Charles Dickens called Thaxter's essays "admirable" and Horace Greeley declared, "The best prose writing I have seen for a long time is Mrs. Thaxter's 'Isles of Shoals' in the Atlantic. Her pen-pictures are wonderfully well-done." Published as a book in 1873, Among the Isles of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584653302
• ISBN13: 9781584653301
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: University Press of New England
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.0"