Henry David Thoreau; a Profile
Author | : Walter Roy Harding |
Publisher | : Hill & Wang |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1971-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780809002153 |
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Author | : Walter Roy Harding |
Publisher | : Hill & Wang |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1971-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780809002153 |
Author | : Laura Dassow Walls |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 668 |
Release | : 2017-07-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 022634469X |
"[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 Drawing on Thoreau’s copious writings, published and unpublished, [the author] presents a Thoreau vigorously alive in all his quirks and contradictions: the young man shattered by the sudden death of his brother; the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."--
Author | : Henry David Thoreau |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1882 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Henry David Thoreau |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : American essays |
ISBN | : |
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience: This is Thoreau's classic protest against government's interference with individual liberty. One of the most famous essays ever written, it came to the attention of Gandhi and formed the basis for his passive resistance movement.
Author | : Henry David Thoreau |
Publisher | : United Holdings Group |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Anarchism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Milton Meltzer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Authors, American |
ISBN | : |
Drawn largely from his own autobiographical writings.
Author | : Franklin Benjamin Sanborn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 614 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Authors, American |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Henry David Thoreau |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 707 |
Release | : 2009-11-24 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 159017321X |
Henry David Thoreau’s Journal was his life’s work: the daily practice of writing that accompanied his daily walks, the workshop where he developed his books and essays, and a project in its own right—one of the most intensive explorations ever made of the everyday environment, the revolving seasons, and the changing self. It is a treasure trove of some of the finest prose in English and, for those acquainted with it, its prismatic pages exercise a hypnotic fascination. Yet at roughly seven thousand pages, or two million words, it remains Thoreau’s least-known work. This reader’s edition, the largest one-volume edition of Thoreau’s Journal ever published, is the first to capture the scope, rhythms, and variety of the work as a whole. Ranging freely over the world at large, the Journal is no less devoted to the life within. As Thoreau says, “It is in vain to write on the seasons unless you have the seasons in you.”
Author | : Henry S. Salt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Authors, American |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Henry David Thoreau |
Publisher | : Modern Library |
Total Pages | : 799 |
Release | : 2000-11-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0679642021 |
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.