Henry Beston

The Outermost House

A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pushkin Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm
• ISBN-13: 9781805332824
• ISBN-10: 1805332821
• Artikelnr.: 73469047

Autorenporträt

Henry Beston (1888-1968) was born in Quincy, Massachusetts and educated at Harvard. He wrote many books in his lifetime, including a memoir of his years in the volunteer ambulance corps in the First World War, an account of life in the US Navy and a book of fairy tales. The Outermost House, widely considered his masterpiece, was published in 1928. His Cape Cod house was named a National Literary Landmark in 1964, and it was destroyed by a huge winter storm in 1978.