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Excerpt from Among the Isles of Shoals

Celia Thaxter was already a popular poet when she began to publish the essays of Among the Isles of Shoals in the Atlantic Monthly in 1869; they were an immediate sensation. Charles Dickens called Thaxter's essays "admirable" and Horace Greeley declared, "The best prose writing... Read Full Overview

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Celia Thaxter's "Among the Isles of Shoals" offers an enchanting and intimate look at life on the rugged New England coast. For generations, readers have been captivated by Thaxter's vivid portrayals of the unique island world where she spent much of her life. This timeless... Read Full Overview

Celia Thaxter's "Among the Isles of Shoals" offers an enchanting and intimate look at life on the rugged New England coast. For generations, readers have been captivated by Thaxter's vivid portrayals of the unique island world where she spent much of her life. This timeless... Read Full Overview

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc... Read Full Overview

""Among The Isles Of Shoals"" is a book written by Celia Thaxter and published in 1873. It is a collection of essays that describe the author's experiences living on the Isles of Shoals, a group of small islands off the coast of New Hampshire and Maine. Thaxter writes about the... Read Full Overview

"Nine miles of the Atlantic Ocean intervene between these islands and the nearest point of the coast of New Hampshire; but from this nearest point the coast-line recedes gradually, in dim and dimmer distance, to Cape Ann, in Massachusetts; twenty-one miles away at the southwest,... Read Full Overview

A reprint of the poet's classic 1873 human & natural history of the Isles of Shoals, a group of nine Islands off the coats of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.