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      Paperback Transcendental Wild Oats Book
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      ISBN: 1557090963

      ISBN13: 9781557090966

      Transcendental Wild Oats

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      Bronson Alcott's Fruitlands is a compilation of works with the short work Transcendental Wild Oats by the famous author of Little Women, Louisa May Alcott. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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      When Louisa May Alcott was a little girl, her father moved the family to live in an experimental commune in the orchard town of Harvard, Massachusetts. The idea was that inhabitants would live on unleavened bread and apples, abstain from sex, and expound on the universe. The experiment lasted only from July to December, when it predictably fell apart. In adulthood, Louisa trained a comic eye on the whole experience, and...

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      Thes sixties wasn't the first time!

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      The Fruitlands commune was a fascinating experiment that took place in beautiful Harvard, Mass. when Louisa was a child. "Transcendental Wild Oats" is her brief and affectionate send-up of the ridiculous ideals and characters she remembers from Fruitlands, among them her father. "Fruitlands Diary," her actual diary from her childhood, offers great insight into daily life from this time period, with affectionate comments...

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