Norman Lock
Author
Series
American novels (Norman Lock) volume 6
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In the sixth stand-alone book in The American Novels series, Shelby Ross, a merchant ruined by the depression of 1873-79, is hired as a New York City Custom House appraiser under inspector Herman Melville, the embittered, forgotten author of Moby-Dick. On the docks, Ross befriends a genial young man and makes an enemy of a despicable one, who attempts to destroy them by insinuating that Ross and the young man share an unnatural affection. Ross narrates...
Author
Series
American novels (Norman Lock) volume 9
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"After the Union Army's defeat at Fredericksburg in 1862, Walt Whitman and Louisa May Alcott converge on Washington to attend to the sick, wounded, and dying. Both of these iconic Americans, known for bucking the conventions of their day, find their principles and beliefs tested by grueling and grisly duties. Walt Whitman was a man of many contradictions: egocentric yet compassionate, vain though frequently transported by the beauty of others, he...
3) The ice harp
Author
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Retired from public life, Ralph Waldo Emerson takes up arms to save a fugitive Black soldier from unjust arrest in the tenth of Lock's American Novels"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
American novels (Norman Lock) volume 11
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"Oliver Fischer, a self-styled bohemian, boardwalk caricaturist, and student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, enrages his banker father and earns the contempt of Philadelphia's foremost realist painter Thomas Eakins when he attempts to stage Manet's scandalous painting The Luncheon on the Grass. Soon after, he is ensnarled, along with Mark Twain and Andrew Carnegie, in a clash between the Anti-Imperialist League and their expansionist...
Author
Series
American novels (Norman Lock) volume 4
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Samuel Long escapes slavery in Virginia, traveling the Underground Railroad to Walden Woods where he encounters Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Lloyd Garrison, and other transcendentalists and abolitionists. While Long will experience his coming-of-age at Walden Pond, his hosts will receive a lesson in human dignity, culminating in a climactic act of civil disobedience. -- from Amazon.
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