homes and haunts

A photographic tribute to Mount Vernon, the Virginia home of George and Martha Washington, providing color pictures of the mansion's exterior, interior, grounds, furnishings, and artworks; and featuring essays that provide information about Washington and his beloved home.

Uses material from Louisa May Alcott's journals and letters to present a fictional recreation of a summer in the life of writer Louisa May Alcott. In 1855, twenty-two-year-old Louisa May Alcott moves with her family to New Hampshire for the summer where she meets Joseph Singer and experiences love and loss.

Biography of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, focusing on his visit to Turin in 1888, at which time he experienced his most productive period of writing, and discusses the last sane year of his life before his mental breakdown which damaged him permanently.

Provides a comprehensive history of Walden Pond, the natural area made famous by transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau.