Angel in the Forest is Marguerite Youngs fascinating chronicle of two attempts to establish utopian communities in nineteenthcentury America.In it, she recounts the strange tale of New Harmony, Indiana, a community originally founded in 1814 by the German mystic Father George Rapp, who wanted to apply Scriptural communism to daily life in order to bring about the New Jerusalem. It was sold in 1825 to Robert Owen, the father of British socialism who, with a group of English immigrants, implemented his own theories for a perfect community, this time based on rationalism.Both experiments failed, but Young finds in both a distinctively American yearning for utopia, which continues to characterize the American spirit to this day a tradition of faith and folly can be traced from Owens New Moral World to George Bushs New World Order.Written with the same elegance, wit, and lyric beauty that distinguishes her fiction,Angel in the Forestwas widely praised upon its first publication in 1945. This edition includes Mark Van Dorens introduction to Scribners 1966 reprint.

Binding: Paperback;436 pages; Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing; Classification: HBJK; Weight: 666 g; Dimensions: 139 x 216 x 28

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