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Length9h 31m
About this audiobook
This audiobook narrated by Clarke Peters shares a vivid historical imagining of the lives of individuals—from painters, poets, and politicians to enslaved people, artisans, and travelers—in the early United States
Set amid the glimmering lakes and disappearing forests of the early United States,
The Forest imagines how a wide variety of Americans experienced their lives. Part truth, part fiction, featuring both real and invented characters, the book follows painters, poets, enslaved people, farmers, and artisans living and working in a world still made largely of wood. Some of the historical characters—such as Thomas Cole, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanny Kemble, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nat Turner—are well-known, while others are not. But all are creators of private and grand designs.
The Forest unfolds in brief stories. Each episode reveals an intricate lost world. Characters cross paths or go their own ways, each striving for something different but together forming a pattern of life. For Alexander Nemerov, the forest is a description of American society, the dense and discontinuous woods of nation, the foliating thoughts of different people, each with their separate shade and sun. Through vivid descriptions of the people, sights, smells, and sounds of Jacksonian America,
The Forest brings American history to life on a human scale.
Published in association with the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Audiobook details
GenreDystopia, Literary Classics
Length9 hrs 31 mins
Narrated byClarke Peters
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateMar 7, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Opening Anno, For Jeremi Szaniawski
8Part Six - The Clocks of Forestville
2Author's Note
9Part Six - Continued
3Part One - Herodotus among the Trees
10Part Seven - Supernatural
4Part Two - The Tavern to the Traveler
11Part Seven - Continued
5Part Three - Come Thick Night
12Part Eight - Four Greens
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6Part Four - Panic
13Part Nine - Three Levitations
7Part Five - Animals Are Where They Are
14Postscript - The Shield, Closing Anno
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