The Angel and the Serpent

The Story of New Harmony

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William E. Wilson

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Paperback / softback

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"The Angel and the Serpent is a book which combines scholarship and literary grace, and which recreates for us both the world of the Rappites and the Owenites." —Henry Steele Commager, The New York Times Book Review Here is the story of George Rapp's German Harmonists and Robert Owen's Idealists—the two vastly different communities that shaped the history of New Harmony, Indiana Both the Rappites and the Owenites came to New Harmony to conduct communal living experiments—Rapp expecting the millennium; Owen believing he had brought the millennium with him.

Author Biography:

William E. Wilson (1906-1988) was a professor of English at Indiana University and the author of numerous books and articles as well as a beloved teacher. The Angel and the Serpent was one of his best known works.

Release date Australia

April 22nd, 1984

Author

William E. Wilson

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Undergraduate

Illustrations

53 b&w photos

Pages

242

Dimensions

152x229x19

ISBN-13

9780253203267

Product ID

2026605

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