Edward Carpenter

From 1066 to 1966, with special studies on the architecture, coronations, music and sacristy of the Abbey.

Il Carpenter non è nome nuovo in Italia. Alcuni suoi libri di psicologia furon già tradotti, ma nessuno aveva finora pensato a tradurre l'opera sua più famosa, che fa di lui, con spiriti un pò diversi, un degno continuatore del grande Walt Whitman. (G. Papini)

A frank discussion of marriage and sex criticizing the inequities that exist between husband and wife.

Historical and philosophical discussion on love and death. The author tries to grapple with their significance and to come to some resolution about death.

Describes Tubman's spiritual journey as she hears the voice of God guiding her north to freedom on that very first trip to escape the brutal practice of forced servitude. Tubman would make nineteen subsequent trips back south, never being caught, but none as profound as this first one.