The Forest: A Fable of America in the 1830s by Alexander Nemerov · Audiobook preview

The Forest: A Fable of America in the 1830s
Authored by Alexander Nemerov
Narrated by Clarke Peters

0:00 Intro
0:03 Epigraph
1:10 Author’s Note
3:24 Part One: Herodotus among the Trees
53:11 Part Two: The Tavern to the Traveler
1:00:30 Outro

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BOOK DESCRIPTION

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

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Alexander Nemerov is the Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities at Stanford University. His many books include Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York and Soulmaker: The Times of Lewis Hine (Princeton). Clarke Peters is best known for his roles on HBO's The Wire and in major films such as Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods and Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri.

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AUDIOBOOK DETAILS

Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published on: March 7, 2023
ISBN: 9780691251059
Duration: 9 hr, 32 min
Genres: Fiction / General, Fiction / Historical / General, Literary Collections / Essays