Romance of Pilgrims A Great American Love-story

This wonderfully illustrated book retells a great, American love-story. It is a dramatized portrayal of the Mayflower Pilgrims, being part fact and part fiction. (Several years of events are condensed and poetically rearranged for dramatic effect.) However, the book is not a novel or a narrative history. Rather, it is presented as an ancient, heroic legend -- in poetic verse, a la Homer's Odyssey or Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. It is an elegant form of historical fiction. The book celebrates love, friendship, family, and a sacred American Dream. Historic portraits by Rembrandt and other renown artists fill its pages. Romantics of all ages will treasure the tale's graceful, poetic freeverse; a beautiful young woman of the Pilgrim era, circa 1650, adorns the book's cover. This is the perfect gift-book, a holiday favorite for both Thanksgiving, the Pilgrim holiday, and Valentine's Day, the day for lovers. Henry Longfellow, the celebrated poet and a great-grandson of the lovers, first told this mesmerizing, Shakespearean ballad about three friends who were Mayflower Pilgrims. They became involved in a tragic love-triangle in the Spring of 1621, six months after arriving in America. Before their personal conflict could be resolved, a fierce Indian war threatened their village. First published in 1858, the saga was a runaway bestseller for decades. However, archaic language gradually obscured the original text, making it a ?lost? tale. Now, David W. Bradford, a Harvard and Yale-educatedscholar, has rewritten the story for a new generation. He restores an exceptionally life-like portrayal of the Mayflower Pilgrims, one of the best ever. This book is must-have for all libraries, the first modern adaptation of Longfellow in more than a century.Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth is the author of 'Romance of Pilgrims A Great American Love-story', published 2006 under ISBN 9780978799205 and ISBN 0978799208.