The Believing Years

The Believing Years

EDMUND LESTER PEARSON

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Alpha Editions
Año de edición:
2021
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Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9789354757112
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A quiet, intimate doorway into a child’s awakened world, The Believing Years invites readers to travel a remembered landscape of faith and wonder. It is a memoir collection that reads like a warm lantern lit along a foggy street, revealing how a young mind learns to navigate doubt, duty, and joy.Edmund Lester Pearson crafts reminiscence prose with the precision and charm of late nineteenth-century America. The book moves with clear, accessible rhythm, offering intimate vignettes of childhood faith, moral development, and small recognitions that quietly shape a life. It is at once a personal journey and a window onto classical American storytelling, with echoes of New England settings and a distinctly American voice in the tradition of mark twain style memoirs.Historically and literarily significant, the volume captures a cultural moment and a temper of its time, while retaining universal pull for readers curious about memory, belief, and成长. It will appeal to casual readers seeking a touching, human story and to classic-literature collectors who treasure historically rooted prose and carefully wrought prose.Selling points are woven into the fabric of the description: out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions; restored for today’s and future generations; and more than a reprint - a collector’s item and a cultural treasure. For memoir enthusiasts and personal growth readers alike, this is a durable, enduring invitation to revisit late nineteenth century America through a living, enduring voice.

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