Religion - A Friend in the Library

Eva March Tappan's “A Friend in the Library” series is a comprehensive guide to the writings of six seminal American writers, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. Religion has no small part to play in the history and development of American literature, and perhaps nowhere more interestingly than in the works of these great writers. In volume eight, Tappan takes a detailed look at