Norwood: or, Village life in New England

by Henry Ward Beecher

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Unknown Binding

First published December 1, 1989

About the author

Lyman Beecher, fathered Catharine Esther Beecher, Edward Beecher, Henry Ward Beecher, a famous clergyman and newspaper editor for his abolitionist orations, and Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe.

Henry Ward Beecher, a prominent American, theologically liberal Congregationalist, and social reformer, spoke in the mid to late 19th century.

People accused him of adultery, an affair with a married woman, in one most famous American trial of 1875.

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Reviews

[Virginia · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found this gem several decades ago and fell in love with the little brown book with dogwood blossoms stamped on the cover. It is a warm and loving depiction of life in a small New England town following the Civil War. It has been almost twenty years since I last read it, but it is one of those books that has found it's way to one of my list to save in the event of evacuating the planet. I wonder if anyone else out there has read it?

[Pat]

It's long. It's practically plotless. It's a tough slog. But Henry Ward Beecher was hugely important in his time. Mentions of the book in newspapers, etc., of the time seesaw between admiring the book and being sarcastic about it. It's certainly not for everyone.

[Aren Lerner · Rating 5 out of 5]

A beautiful and thought-provoking story of coming of age in Civil War America.