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Transcendental Wild Oats and excerpts from the Fruitlands diary
Transcendental Wild Oats and excerpts from the Fruitlands diary Author:Louisa May Alcott From introduction by William Henry Harrison: a fictionalized account of Louisa May Alcott's father's utopian venture, the Fruitlands community, to which Louisa came when she was ten years old. Published first in 1873, the book pokes mild fun at some of the follies of the community's beliefs. The community was part of a widespread interest in tra... more »nscendentalism in New England in the mid nineteenth century.« less