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The Writings of Henry David Thoreau - Early Essays and Miscellanies. (Hardcover)
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The Writings of Henry David Thoreau - Early Essays and Miscellanies. (Hardcover)
Series: Writings of Henry D. Thoreau
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This collection of fifty-three early pieces by Thoreau represents
the full range of his youthful imagination. Collected, arranged,
and carefully edited for the first time here, the writings date
from 1828 to 1852 and cover a broad range of subjects: learning,
morals, literature, history, politics, and love. Included is a
major essay on Sir Walter Raleigh that was not published during the
author's lifetime and a fragmentary college piece here published
for the first time. Titles of essays published in the volume are
given below. Early Essays * The Seasons * Anxieties and Delights of
a Discoverer * Men Whose Pursuit Is Money * Of Keeping a Private
Journal *"We Are Apt to Become What Others ...Think Us to Be" *
Forms, Ceremonies, and Restraints of Polite Society * A Man of
Business, a Man of Pleasure, a Man of the World * Musings * Kinds
of Energetic Character * Privileges and Pleasures of a Literary Man
* Severe and Mild Punishments * Popular Feeling * Style May
...Offend against Simplicity * The Book of the Seasons * Sir Henry
Vane * Literary Digressions * Foreign Influence on American
Literature * Life and Works of Sir W. Scott * The Love of Stories *
Cultivation of the Imagination * The Greek Classic Poets * The
Meaning of "Fate" * Whether the Government Ought to Educate *
Travellers & Inhabitants * History ...of the Roman Republic * A
Writer's Nationality and Individual Genius * L'Allegro & Il
Penseroso * All Men Are Mad * The Speeches of Moloch & the Rest
* People of Different Sections * Gaining or Exercising Public
Influence * Titles of Books * Sublimity * The General Obligation to
Tell the Truth *"Being Content with Common Reasons" * The Duty,
Inconvenience and Dangers of Conformity * Moral Excellence *
Barbarities of Civilized States * T. Pomponius Atticus * Class Book
Autobiography *"The Commercial Spirit of Modern Times" Miscellanies
* * DIED ...Miss Anna Jones * Aulus Persius Flaccus * The Laws of
Menu * Sayings of Confucius * Dark Ages * Chinese Four Books *
Homer. Ossian. Chaucer. * Hermes Trismegistus ...From the Gulistan
of Saadi * Sir Walter Raleigh * Thomas Carlyle and His Works * Love
* Chastity & Sensuality
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