Richard Francis, Author . Arcade $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-55970-562-2
Ann Lee (1736–1784) was an illiterate who left no records of her own, making the biographer's task a challenge. Francis has culled this entertaining profile from public records of Lee's many incarcerations for disorderly conduct (those
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Richard Francis, Author Atheneum Books $15.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-689-11843-2
Francis's boldly written, intelligent contemporary satire contains a current of bitterness at the British government's need for ""a small war'' to set right its failing economic policies and a stagnating society. As in his earlier books (Daggerman,...
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Richard Francis, Author Simon & Schuster $21 (252p) ISBN 978-0-684-80337-1
This darkly comic novel examines an extraordinary day in the life of one suburban British family. It's John and Margaret's 19th anniversary. John, an assistant bank manager, is preoccupied with buttering up his boss for an upcoming performance...
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Richard Francis, Author Cornell University Press $49.95 (264p) ISBN 978-0-8014-3093-0
People living in the village of Concord, Mass., in the 1840s must have thought they were the center of the intellectual universe. Nearby, Emerson, Thoreau and Bronson Alcott wrote and gave talks on transcendentalism while Hawthorne composed his...
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Richard Francis, Author . Fourth Estate $25.95 (412p) ISBN 978-0-00-716362-5
In this lively chronicle, historian Francis (Transcendental Utopias
) offers a compelling portrait of the decline of Puritan ways in the late 17th century and the ascent of a secular spirit in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Although devout, Samuel...
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