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Autumn: A Spiritual Biography of the Season

by Gary D. Schmidt (Editor), Susan M. Felch (Editor)

Other authors: Meena Alexander (Contributor), Wendell Berry (Contributor), William Bradford (Contributor), John Burroughs (Contributor), Margaret Postgate Cole (Contributor) — 37 more, Susan Fenimore Cooper (Contributor), Leo Dangel (Contributor), Stephen Dobyns (Contributor), David James Duncan (Contributor), Robert Frost (Contributor), A. Bartlett Giamatti (Contributor), Kent Gramm (Contributor), Hahm Dong-seon (Contributor), Kimiko Hahn (Contributor), Sarah Josepha Hale (Contributor), PD James (Contributor), Julian of Norwich (Contributor), John Keats (Contributor), Garret Keizer (Contributor), Tracy Kidder (Contributor), David Kline (Contributor), Verlyn Klinkenborg (Contributor), Anne Lamott (Contributor), Marjorie Marshall (Contributor), Alice Meynell (Contributor), Isabel Neill (Contributor), Donald Culross Peattie (Contributor), Esther Popel (Contributor), Wyman Richardson (Contributor), May Sarton (Contributor), Siegfried Sassoon (Contributor), Alix Kates Shulman (Contributor), Lauren Springer (Contributor), Robert Louis Stevenson (Contributor), Edward Thomas (Contributor), Henry David Thoreau (Contributor), Henry Major Tomlinson (Contributor), Jean Toomer (Contributor), Abram Van Engen (Contributor), E.B. White (Contributor), Edward Winslow (Contributor), Allen M. Young (Contributor)

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Series: Spiritual Biography of the Season

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Discover how this transitional season can reveal both the abundance and the limitations of our everyday lives. Autumn, with all its traditional images of colorful trees, frost-covered pumpkins, and piles of wood stored up against winter's cold, can be a season filled with anticipation. The harvest, the imminent onset of cold and snow, the resumption of old routines, and the beginning of the school year all require preparation and planning. If summer has been something of a pause, autumn helps us to see the passage of time more clearly. Autumn is a season of fruition and reaping, of thanksgiving and celebration of abundance and goodness of the earth. But it is also a season that starkly and realistically encourages us to see our own limitations. Warm and stirring pieces by E. B. White, Anne Lamott, P. D. James, Julian of Norwich, May Sarton, Kimiko Hahn, and many others in this beautiful book rejoice in autumn as a time of preparation and reflection, when the results of hard labor are ripe for harvest.… (more)

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808.8Literature › modified standard subdivisions › Rhetoric and collections of literary texts from more than two literatures › Collections of literary texts from more than two literatures

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