Franklin Library: FLOWERING OF NEW ENGLAND: THOREAU: EMERSON: LONGFELLOW: HOLMES. Franklin Library leather edition of Van Wyck Brook's "The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865," a Limited edition, Illustrated with Period Engravings, one of the PULITZER PRIZE CLASSICS series, published in 1985. Bound in brown leather, the book has marbled paper end leaves, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, hubbed spine, satin book marker, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINEcondition---except for a name and date written neatly on third page under the Pultizer Prize Classics notation---otherwise FINE. Van Wyck Brooks, who lived from 1886-1963, was born in New Jersey and graduated from HARVARD in 1904. He taught at STANFORD from 1911-13, edited magazines, and translated many French books, but his main work was interpreting the literary and cultural life in the U.S. This volume has chapters on "The Boston of Gilbert Stuart," "Harvard College in 1815," "The Coast and the Hinterland," "George Ticknor's Wanderkahre," "The New Age in Boston and Cambridge," "The North American Review: Sparks, Bancroft," "Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella," "Longfellow in Cambridge," "The Younger Generation of 1840," "Emerson in Concord," "Hawthorne in Salem, "Alcott, Margaret Fuller, Brook Farm," "Emerson: Woodnotes," "Concord: 1840-1844," "Thoreau," "Cambridge: Longfellow, Dana the Younger, Lowell," "Dr. Holmes," "Thoreau at Walden," "West of Boston," "The Antislavery Writers," "New England at Large," "Concord in the Fifties," "Cambridge in the Fifties," "The Romantic Exiles," "The Autocrat," "The Saturday Club: Lowell's Essays," and "Conclusion." 474 pages, including an Index. I offer Combined shipping.