Benfey, Christopher

A summer of hummingbirds : Love, art, and scandal in the intersecting worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade / C. Benfey. - New York : Penguin Books, 2009. - xv, 287 p : ill., portraits ; 22 cm.

A surprising and scandalous story of how the interaction within a group of exceptional and uniquely talented characters shaped and changed American thought at the close of the Civil War.

978-0-14-311508-3


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