Angel in the Forest

Name: Angel in the Forest
Brand: Deep Vellum Publishing
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A Fariy Tale of Two Utopias

By: Marguerite Young, Mark Van Doren (Designed by), Professor Keith A Sculle (As told to), Professor Jefferson S Rogers (As told to)

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Paperback | 7 November 1994 | Edition Number 2

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Paperback
331 Pages

Edition Type
New edition

Age
22+

Dimensions(cm)
22.9 x 15.3 x 2.4

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This is the first paperback edition of Marguerite Young's fascinating chronicle of two attempts to establish utopian communities in nineteenth-century America.Angel in the Forest recounts the strange tale of New Harmony, Indiana. The original community was founded in 1814 by the German mystic Father George Rapp, who, with a group of English immigrants, implemented his own theories for a perfect community, this time based on rationalism. Both experiments failed, but Young finds in both a distinctively American yearning for utopia, which continues to characterize the American spirit to this day: a tradition of faith and folly can be traced from Owen's New Moral World to George Bush's New World Order. Written with the same elegance, wit, and lyric beauty that distinguishes her fiction, Angel in the Forest was widely praised upon its first publication in 1945. This edition includes Mark Van Doren's introduction to Scribner's 1966 reprint.

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She is a superb storyteller whose allusions, images and digressions are even more telling than the story told. -- Publishers Weekly

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