Name: The Pioneer Valley Reader
Author: James C. O'Connell
ISBN: 9780936399713

Published:

Sep-1995 (Hardcover)
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General Fiction
Pages:

384
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This anthology brings together four centuries of writings from Western Massachusetts' Connecticut River Valley, dozens of representative selections of great poise and poetry to show the unique place in American culture occupied by the "Pioneer Valley" and its cities and towns. Writers include Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Parker Willis, William Cullen Bryant, Emily Dickinson, Richard Wilbur, Sylvia Plath, Tracy Kidder, William Pynchon, and John McPhee.