{"title":"Marguerite Young","description":"\u003cp\u003eWelcome to our collection of works by the enigmatic author, Marguerite Young. Known for her profound and intricate prose, Young's writings invite readers into richly detailed worlds that challenge and delight the imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMarguerite Young made her mark with \u003cem\u003eAngel in the Forest\u003c\/em\u003e, an evocative exploration found within our History \u0026amp; Military section. This narrative delves into the history of utopian settlements in New Harmony, Indiana, intertwining historical facts with philosophical musings, offering an insightful perspective on American idealism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn our General Fiction category, you will find her magnum opus, \u003cem\u003eMiss MacIntosh, My Darling\u003c\/em\u003e. This expansive novel is celebrated for its lyrical style and psychological depth, following the surreal journey of a young woman searching for truth and identity. It's a mesmerising exploration of illusion versus reality that will captivate those who appreciate poetic and thought-provoking fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMarguerite Young’s works are not just books; they are literary experiences that transcend the ordinary. They defy conventional storytelling and invite readers on a transformative journey through dense and beautifully constructed narratives. Dive into her writings to discover a unique voice in American literature that continues to resonate with readers today.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"miss-macintosh-my-darling-by-marguerite-young-9781628973952","title":"Miss MacIntosh, My Darling","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis novel is one of the most ambitious and remarkable literary achievements of our time. It is a picaresque, psychological novel—a novel of the road, a journey or voyage of the human spirit in its search for reality in a world of illusion and nightmare. It is an epic of what might be called the Arabian Nights of American life. Marguerite Young's method is poetic, imagistic, incantatory; in prose of extraordinary richness, she tests the nature of her characters—and the nature of reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMiss MacIntosh, My Darling\u003c\/i\u003e is written with oceanic music moving at many levels of consciousness and perception; but the toughly fibred realistic fabric is always there, in the happenings of the narrative, the humour, the precise details, the definitions of the characters. Miss MacIntosh herself, who hails from What Cheer, Iowa, seems downright and normal, with an incorruptible sense of humour and the desire to put an end to phantoms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCatherine Cartwheel, the opium lady, is a recluse shut away in a great New England seaside house, entertaining imaginary guests. Mr. Spitzer, the lawyer, musical composer, and mystical space traveller, is a gentle man, wholly unsure of himself and of reality; his twin brother Peron is the gay and raffish gambler, a virtuoso in the world of sports. Cousin Hannah, the horsewoman, balloonist, mountain-climber, and militant Boston feminist, is known as Al Hamad through all the seraglios of the East. Titus Bonebreaker of Chicago, a wild man of God dreaming of a heavenly crown, and the very efficient Christian hangman, Mr. Weed of the Wabash River Valley, are both present. There's also a featherweight champion who meets his equal in a graveyard. These are a few who live with phantasmagorical vividness in the pages of \u003ci\u003eMiss MacIntosh, My Darling\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe novel touches on many aspects of life—drug addiction, woman's suffrage, murder, suicide, pregnancy both real and imaginary, schizophrenia, many strange loves, the psychology of gambling, perfectionism; but the profusion of this huge book serves always to intensify the force of the central question: 'What shall we do when, fleeing from illusion, we are confronted by illusion?' What is real, what is dream? Is the calendar of the human heart the same as that kept by the earth? Is it possible that one may live a secondary life of which one does not know?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn every aspect, \u003ci\u003eMiss MacIntosh, My Darling\u003c\/i\u003e stands by itself—in the lyric beauty of its prose, its imaginative vitality, and cumulative emotional power. 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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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBoth experiments failed, but Young finds in both a distinctively American yearning for utopia, which continues to characterise the American spirit to this day: a tradition of faith and folly can be traced from Owen's New Moral World to George Bush's New World Order.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWritten with the same elegance, wit, and lyric beauty that distinguishes her fiction, \u003ci\u003eAngel in the Forest\u003c\/i\u003e was widely praised upon its first publication in 1945. 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