State of Mind: A Boston Reader (City and Country Reader Series)

xiv, 428 pp. The volume contains 82 selections, some by such eminent authors as Hawthorne, Emerson, Henry Adams, Henry James, John Dos Passos, Santayana and J.P. Marquand. A panorama of three centries of Boston's history, literature, customs, manners, and foibles that is sometimes humorous, sometimes exciting, often illuminating...