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Walden and Other Writings

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0679642021
Total Pages : 799 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book Walden and Other Writings written by Henry David Thoreau and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page 799 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry David Thoreau's vision of personal freedom is indelibly etched on the American consciousness. 'We need the tonic of wildness,' Thoreau wrote in Walden, and by turning his back on town amenities to build a house on Walden Pond in 1845, he helped shape our notions of the individual, subsistence, and a moral relation to nature. Raising white beans and potatoes that he sold to his Concord neighbors, he stayed for two years; his book records both the philosophy he developed while living alone and the facts of his everyday life. Included here with the complete text of Walden are selections from Thoreau's first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers; 'A Plea for Captain John Brown,' his eloquent defense of the American abolitionist's rebellion at Harper's Ferry, and such masterpieces as his famous essay 'Civil Disobedience,' in which he describes a night spent in prison for refusing to pay a poll tax to a government that condoned slavery.

Walden

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400880793
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Walden written by Henry David Thoreau and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most influential and compelling books in American literature, Walden is a vivid account of the years that Henry D. Thoreau spent alone in a secluded cabin at Walden Pond. This edition--introduced by noted American writer John Updike--celebrates the perennial importance of a classic work, originally published in 1854. Much of Walden's material is derived from Thoreau's journals and contains such engaging pieces from the lively "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For" and "Brute Neighbors" to the serene "Reading" and "The Pond in the Winter." Other famous sections involve Thoreau's visits with a Canadian woodcutter and with an Irish family, a trip to Concord, and a description of his bean field. This is the complete and authoritative text of Walden--as close to Thoreau's original intention as all available evidence allows. This is the authoritative text of Walden and the ideal presentation of Thoreau's great document of social criticism and dissent.

Walden's Shore

Author : Robert M. Thorson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674728408
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Walden's Shore written by Robert M. Thorson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-06 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walden's Shore explores Thoreau's understanding of the "living rock" on which life's complexity depends--not as metaphor but as physical science. Robert Thorson's subject is Thoreau the rock and mineral collector, interpreter of landscapes, and field scientist whose compass and measuring stick were as important to him as his plant press.

Walden

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Walden written by Henry David Thoreau and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers written by Henry David Thoreau and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Henry David Thoreau

Author : Laura Dassow Walls
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022634469X
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Henry David Thoreau written by Laura Dassow Walls and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-07-07 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[The author] traces the full arc of Thoreau’s life, from his early days in the intellectual hothouse of Concord, when the American experiment still felt fresh and precarious, and 'America was a family affair, earned by one generation and about to pass to the next.' By the time he died in 1862, at only forty-four years of age, Thoreau had witnessed the transformation of his world from a community of farmers and artisans into a bustling, interconnected commercial nation. What did that portend for the contemplative individual and abundant, wild nature that Thoreau celebrated? Drawing on Thoreau’s copious writings, published and unpublished, [the author] presents a Thoreau vigorously alive in all his quirks and contradictions: the young man shattered by the sudden death of his brother; the ambitious Harvard College student; the ecstatic visionary who closed Walden with an account of the regenerative power of the Cosmos. We meet the man whose belief in human freedom and the value of labor made him an uncompromising abolitionist; the solitary walker who found society in nature, but also found his own nature in the society of which he was a deeply interwoven part. And, running through it all, Thoreau the passionate naturalist, who, long before the age of environmentalism, saw tragedy for future generations in the human heedlessness around him."--

Reflections at Walden

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Reflections at Walden written by Henry David Thoreau and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections at Walden includes Thoreau?s account of how he lived and what he learned during his two years at Walden. We can profit from some of his discoveries:?In proportion as [a man] simplifies his life,? writes Thoreau,?the laws of the universe will appear less complex.? Later he says,?There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of nature." These principles governed Thoreau's life. And in all the writings included here -- selections from "Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Journal, Ktaand and the Maine Woods, and the early poems"--Thoreau speaks of nature with the simple eloquence of a man who is motivated to speech by love.

Journal

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691065366
Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Journal written by Henry David Thoreau and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1837 to 1861 Thoreau kept a journal that began as a conventional record of ideas, grew into a writer's notebook, and eventually became the principal imaginative work of his career. The source of much of his published writing, the Journal is also a record of both his interior life and his monumental studies of the natural history of his native Concord, Massachusetts. In contrast to earlier editions, the Princeton Edition reproduces the Journal in its original and complete form, in a reading text that is free of editorial interpolations but keyed to a comprehensive scholarly apparatus. Covering an annual cycle from spring 1852 to late winter 1853, Journal 5 finds Thoreau intensely concentrating on detailed observations of natural phenomena and on "the mysterious relation between myself & these things" that he always strove to understand. Increasingly, the Journal attempts to balance a new found scientific professionalism and the accurate recording of phenological data with a firmly rooted belief in the spiritual correspondences that Nature reveals. Fittingly, the year of observation ends with Thoreau pondering an invitation to join the Association for the Advancement of Science, an invitation he ultimately declined in order to pursue his own life studies.

The Writings of Henry David Thoreau

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book The Writings of Henry David Thoreau written by Henry David Thoreau and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Walden

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0192839217
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Walden written by Henry David Thoreau and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 1999-08-12 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1845 Henry David Thoreau, disdainful of America's growing commercialism and industrialism, left his home town of Concord, Massachusetts to begin a new life alone, in a rough hut on the north-west shore of Walden Pond. Walden is Thoreau's classic autobiographical account of this experiment in solitary living. This new edition of Walden traces the sources of Thoreau's reading and thinking and considers the author in the context of his birthplace and his sense of its history - social, economic and natural. In addition, an ecological appendix provides modern identifications of the myriad plants and animals to which Thoreau gave increasingly close attention as he became acclimatized to his life in the woods by Walden Pond. - ;`The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation' In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his home town of Concord, Massachusetts to begin a new life alone, in a rough hut he built himself a mile and a half away on the north-west shore of Walden Pond. Walden is Thoreau's classic autobiographical account of this experiment in solitary living, his refusal to play by the rules of hard work and the accumulation of wealth and above all the freedom it gave him to adapt his living to the natural world around him. This new edition of Walden traces the sources of Thoreau's reading and thinking and considers the author in the context of his birthplace and his sense of its history - social, economic and natural. In addition, an ecological appendix provides modern identifications of the myriad plants and animals to which Thoreau gave increasingly close attention as he became acclimatized to his life in the woods by Walden Pond. -

The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Walden

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Walden written by Henry David Thoreau and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Walden

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1590307453
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Walden written by Henry David Thoreau and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In July 1845, Henry David Thoreau built a small cottage in the woods near Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. During the two years and two months he spent there, he began to write Walden, a chronicle of his communion with nature that became one of the most influential and compelling books in American literature. As the favorite book of generations of readers, Walden has become part of the American landscape. Its message of living simply, in harmony with nature, is needed now more than ever. Here are select passages that provide a perfect introduction to Walden, along with woodblock engravings by Michael McCurdy and two audio CDs with samples of the text read aloud.

Walden and Other Writings

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Bantam Classics
ISBN 13 : 0553900773
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (539 download)

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Download or read book Walden and Other Writings written by Henry David Thoreau and published by Bantam Classics. This book was released on 2004-10-26 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With their call for "simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!”, for self-honesty, and for harmony with nature, the writings of Henry David Thoreau are perhaps the most influential philosophical works in all American literature. The selections in this volume represent Thoreau at his best. Included in their entirety are Walden, his indisputable masterpiece, and his two great arguments for nonconformity, Civil Disobedience and Life Without Principle. A lifetime of brilliant observation of nature--and of himself--is recorded in selections from A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers, Cape Cod, The Maine Woods and The Journal.

Walden

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Walden written by Henry David Thoreau and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part memoir and part spiritual quest, Walden opens with the announcement that Thoreau spent two years at Walden Pond living a simple life without support of any kind. Readers are reminded that at the time of publication, Thoreau is back to living among the civilized again. The book is separated into specific chapters, each of which focuses on specific themes: Economy: In this first and longest chapter, Thoreau outlines his project: a two-year, two-month, and two-day stay at a cozy, "tightly shingled and plastered", English-style 10' × 15' cottage in the woods near Walden Pond.[4] He does this, he says, to illustrate the spiritual benefits of a simplified lifestyle. He easily supplies the four necessities of life (food, shelter, clothing, and fuel) with the help of family and friends, particularly his mother, his best friend, and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Waldo Emerson. The latter provided Thoreau with a work exchange -- he could build a small house and plant a garden if he cleared some land on the woodlot and did other chores while there.[4] Thoreau meticulously records his expenditures and earnings, demonstrating his understanding of "economy", as he builds his house and buys and grows food. For a home and freedom, he spent a mere $28.121/2, in 1845 (about $934 in 2018 dollars). At the end of this chapter, Thoreau inserts a poem, "The Pretensions of Poverty", by seventeenth-century English poet Thomas Carew. The poem criticizes those who think that their poverty gives them unearned moral and intellectual superiority. Much attention is devoted to the skepticism and wonderment with which townspeople greeted both him and his project as he tries to protect his views from those of the townspeople who seem to view society as the only place to live. He recounts the reasons for his move to Walden Pond along with detailed steps back to the construction of his new home (methods, support, etc.).

Cape Cod

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Cape Cod written by Henry David Thoreau and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Writings of Henry David Thoreau

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
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Download or read book The Writings of Henry David Thoreau written by Henry David Thoreau and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Henry David Thoreau Collection

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Henry David Thoreau Collection written by Henry David Thoreau and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henri David Thoreau was an American writer, philosopher, publicist, naturalist, and poet. He prominently represented American transcendentalism throughout the mid-1800s. Thoreau’s love and observations of nature played a significant role in his writings, often forming the basis for critiques on modern society. As a naturalist, he advocated for the conservation of nature. Thoreau encouraged individual, passive, non-violent as a means of resistance to public evils. He personally supported the abolitionist movement and, as much as possible, took an active interest in the fate of fugitive slaves who were sought by the police. His essay "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" (1849) influenced Leo Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King. Thoreau’s key ideas and observations are contained in these collected works.