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The Berkshire Reader: Writings from New England's Secluded Paradise
The Berkshire Reader Writings from New England's Secluded Paradise Author:Richard Nunley (Editor), Michael McCurdy (Illustrator) "So many of the finest American writers have paid tribute to the Berkshires that Mr. Nunley's anthology can do full justice to this jewel of a region. His Reader also matches the Berkshires' delectable variety by mingling the lively voices of letter-writers, naturalists, historians, humorists, poets,p... more »reacers, novelists, diarists, and every other kind of wordsmith. This iis a charming book, very well selected and handsomely illustrated by Michael McCurdy of Great Barrington." -- Richard Wilbur Some of the writers included:
William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry David Thoreau, Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson,Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville W.E.B. Dubois, Edith Wharton, Edna St. Vincent Millay, William Carlos Williams, James Thurber, Norman Rockwell, and many many more.« less