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Language
English
Description
One of the most famous non-fiction American books, Walden by Henry David Thoreau is the history of Thoreau's visit to Ralph Waldo Emerson's woodland retreat near Walden Pond. Thoreau, stirred by the philosophy of the transcendentalists, used the sojourn as an experiment in self reliance and minimalism… "so as to "live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not,
...3) Walden
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
xxiii, 312 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
TarcherPerigee
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Thoreau Bicentennial edition.
Physical Desc
xxxiv, 361 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"To coincide with the bicentennial of Thoreau's birth and TarcherPerigee's publication of Expect Great Things: The Life of Henry David Thoreau, here is a sumptuous rediscovery edition of the first illustrated volume of Thoreau's classic, as originally issued in 1897. In 1897, thirty-five years after Thoreau's death, Houghton Mifflin issued a two-volume "Holiday Edition" of Walden illustrated with thirty remarkable engravings, daguerreotypes, and period...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
xxv, 370 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Cramer's newly edited text is based on the original 1854 edition of Walden, with emendations taken from Thoreau's draft manuscripts, his own markings or the page proofs and notes in his personal copy of the book. In the editor's notes to the volume. Cramer quotes from sources Thoreau actually read, showing how he used, interpreted, and altered these sources. Cramer also glosses Walden with references to Thoreau's essays."--BOOK JACKET.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xxi, 309 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thoreau's famous account of a year spent in a cabin at Walden Pond near Concord, during which he made many observations about nature, human life, and the importance of simplicity. Also includes his influential essay "Civil disobedience," arguing that since what is law is not necessarily right, and just because the majority decides an issue doesn't automatically make that issue palatable to a man's conscience, individuals should sometimes oppose the...
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