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In 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved into a cabin in the woods at
Walden Pond to record a philosophical experiment in living: to
simplify his life, to support himself entirely by his own labor,
and to draw spiritual sustenance from his surroundings. The result:
Walden: Or, Life in the Woods (1854). In 1846, Thoreau
refused to pay a mandated poll tax, refusing to support a
government that protected slavery and had launched an
aggressive war against Mexico. In his essay “Civil
Disobedience,†Thoreau argues that it is the duty of every
citizen to disobey immoral laws—and willingly suffer the legal
consequences for doing so.
Meditations on human existence, society, government and other topics.
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Walden (Paperback)
Henry David Thoreau; Edited by Jedediah Britton-Purdy
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Walden (1854), Henry David Thoreau's landmark meditation on the
importance of solitude, reflection, and proximity to nature, is
presented in this Norton Library edition alongside three of his
most influential political essays: "Civil Disobedience," "Slavery
in Massachusetts," and "A Plea for Captain John Brown." An
introduction by Jedediah Britton-Purdy reacquaints Thoreau to the
contemporary reader a nuanced account of Thoreau's historical and
intellectual contexts, inviting a new generation to connect with
the transcendentalist's timeless philosophy.
Henry David Thoreau is considered one of the leading figures in
early American literature, and Walden is without doubt his most
influential book. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a
series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold
foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful hardbacks make
perfect gifts for book lovers, or wonderful additions to your own
collection. This edition includes a new afterword by Sam Gilpin.
Walden recounts the author's experiences living in a small house in
the woods around Walden Pond near Concord in Massachusetts. Thoreau
constructed the house himself, with the help of a few friends, to
see if he could live 'deliberately' - independently and apart from
society. The result is an intriguing work which blends natural
history with philosophical insights, and includes many illuminating
quotations from other authors. Thoreau's wooden shack has won a
place for itself in the collective American psyche, a remarkable
achievement for a book with such modest and rustic beginnings.
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Walden (Paperback)
Henry David Thoreau
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Philosopher, naturalist and rugged individualist, Thoreau has inspired generations of readers to think for themselves and to find meaning and beauty in nature. This representative sampling includes five of his most frequently read and cited essays: "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" (1849), "Life without Principle" (1863), "Slavery in Massachusetts" (1854), "A Plea for Captain John Brown" (1869) and "Walking" (1862). Reprinted from standard editions.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of
best-loved, essential classics. "I went to the woods because I
wished 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,
when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish
to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to
practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to
live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily
and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a
broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and
reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why
then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its
meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by
experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next
excursion. " - Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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.
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Walden (Hardcover)
Henry David Thoreau
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The ultimate gift edition of Walden for bibliophiles, aficionados,
and scholars "Replaces all other available editions of Walden as
the most attractive and reliable way to approach this great
American book."-Joel Porte, author of Consciousness and Culture:
Emerson and Thoreau Reviewed This is the authoritative edition of
an American literaru classic: Henry David Thoreau's Walden, an
elegantly written record of his experiment in simple living. With
this edition, Thoreau scholar Jeffrey S. Cramer has meticulously
corrected errors and omissions from previous editions of Walden
andhere provides illuminating notes on the biographical,
historical, and geographical contexts of the great
nineteenth-century writer and thinker's life. 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 on 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, journals, and correspondence. With
the wealth of material in this edition, readers will find an
unprecedented opportunity to immerse themselves in the unique and
fascinating world of Thoreau. Anyone who has read and loved Walden
willwant to own and treasure this gift edition. Those wishing to
read Walden forthe first time will not find a better guide than
Jeffrey S. Cramer.
"Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the
drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of
each." Modernity rules our lives by clock and calendar, dividing
the stream of time into units and coordinating every passing moment
with the universal globe. Henry David Thoreau subverted both clock
and calendar, using them not to regulate time's passing but to open
up and explore its presence. This little volume thus embodies, in
small compass, Thoreau's own ambition to "live in season"--to turn
with the living sundial of the world, and, by attuning ourselves to
nature, to heal our modern sense of discontinuity with our
surroundings. Ralph Waldo Emerson noted with awe that from flowers
alone, Thoreau could tell the calendar date within two days;
children remembered long into adulthood how Thoreau showed them
white waterlilies awakening not by the face of a clock but at the
first touch of the sun. As Thoreau wrote in Walden, "Time is but
the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I
see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is." Drawn from the
full range of Thoreau's journals and published writings, and
arranged according to season, The Daily Henry David Thoreau allows
us to discover the endless variation and surprise to be found in
the repetitions of mundane cycles. Thoreau saw in the kernel of
each day an earth enchanted, one he honed into sentences tuned with
an artist's eye and a musician's ear. Thoreau's world lives on in
his writing so that we too may discover, even in a fallen world, a
beauty worth defending.
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In Wildness (Hardcover)
Eliot Porter; Henry David Thoreau
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In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World is a vintage classic
that pairs passages by writer Henry David Thoreau with images by
photographer Eliot Porter. Ahead of its time, this bestselling-and
long-out-of-print-classic monograph was first published in 1962.
Porter masterfully created color photographs of the New England
woods to pair with the writings of Henry David Thoreau. Often
referred to as the very first coffee table book ever published Both
Porter and Thoreau-although they lived a century apart-worked
endlessly to preserve nature and protect it from manmade
interference. First published by Porter and Sierra Club founder
David Brower The finished "collaboration" arrived in an era when
environmental causes were not as prominent in the public
consciousness, yet the book became an overnight publishing success.
In Wildness is a wonderful pick for environmentally aware buyers,
photography fans, and anyone looking for a unique book that
combines literature and photography. Pairs passages from one of the
most revered American writers of the nineteenth century with a
premier photographer of the twentieth century Features a
re-envisioned cover of the beautiful classic Offers hope and
inspiration for the preservation of our natural world Gorgeous on
display on the coffee table
As a unique feature, the Third Edition includes generous excerpts
from Thoreau's journal, reprinted by special arrangements with
Princeton University Press from the definitive edition of his
writings. Spanning the years 1845-54, these selections vividly
display Thoreau's intensive exploration of his local landscape; the
fusion of literary and natural history field work that informs
Walden, "Walking," and "Wild Apples"; and the growth of his
environmental imagination. "Reviews and Posthumous Assessments" for
this edition collects eight new reviews of Thoreau's antislavery
and late environmental essays as well as of Walden. To the
influential portraits of Thoreau by Ralph Waldo Emerson and James
Russell Lowell, the Third Edition adds John Burroughs's "Another
Word on Thoreau," his response to them and to his great
predecessor. "Recent Criticism" includes eighteen selections of the
best historical, political, philosophical, poststructuralist, and
environmental criticism of Thoreau's writing since the
mid-twentieth century. To classic pieces by E. B. White, Leo Marx,
Barbara Johnson, and Stanley Cavell, the Third Edition adds essays
by nine new contributors, among them Laurence Buell, Laura Dassow
Walls, Evan Carton, Robert A. Gross, Albert J. von Frank, Steven
Fink, and William Rossi. A Chronology of Thoreau's life and work,
new to the Third Edition, and an expanded and updated Selected
Bibliography are also included.
Thoreau's political writing is intensely personal and direct. Both
his life and work focus uncompromisingly on the question 'how
should I live?', and for Thoreau, no element of day-to-day
existence is left untouched by moral and political issues. This
1996 edition of Thoreau's political essays includes 'Civil
Disobedience', selections from Walden, 'Life Without Principle',
and the anti-slavery addresses, such as 'Slavery in Massachusetts'.
In her introduction, Nancy L. Rosenblum places the essays in the
context of Thoreau's life of self-examination, and the debates
about the abolition of slavery, and she analyses the themes of
citizenship and resistance that have made Thoreau an enduring
influence in political philosophy and practice.
Thoreau's political writing is intensely personal and direct. Both his life and work focus uncompromisingly on the question "how should I live?". This edition of Thoreau's political essays includes "Civil Disobedience", selections from Walden, and the anti-slavery addresses. In her introduction, Nancy L. Rosenblum places the essays in the context of Thoreau's life of self-examination, and analyzes the themes of citizenship and resistance that have made Thoreau an enduring influence in political philosophy and practice.
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Henry David Thoreau
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"I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else
whom I knew as well" Eschewing a conventional residence and
lifestyle, Thoreau set up home in the woods on the shore of Walden
Pond in Massachusetts, a mile from his nearest neighbor, and earned
his living by labor of his own hands. Most people, he says are so
occupied with the factitious care and toils of life that its finer
fruits remain unplucked. So he went to Walden in an attempt to
find, in the seemingly simple routines of life stripped to its
essentials, the shape beneath what is apparently chaotic. Walden
describes Thoreau's domestic economy, the wildlife, the few
visitors to his remote wooden hut, and his reflections on the
quality of human life in age of growing materialism and of
prevailing work ethic. It has become poignant critique of the
values of Thoreau's society which retains its relevance and
extraordinary power today. "A comprehensive paper edition, with an
introduction and chronology of Thoreau's life and times"
The perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin's Great Ideas
series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of
history's most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully
packaged with a unique type-driven design that highlights the
bookmaker's art. Offering great literature in great packages at
great prices, this series is ideal for those readers who want to
explore and savor the Great Ideas that have shaped our
world.Thoreau's account of his solitary and self-sufficient home in
the New England woods remains an inspiration to the environmental
movement-a call to his fellow men to abandon their striving,
materialistic existences of 'quiet desperation' for a simple life
within their means, finding spiritual truth through awareness of
the sheer beauty of their surroundings.
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Walden (Paperback)
Henry David Thoreau
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BENJAMIN MARKOVITS In 1845 Thoreau, a
Harvard-educated 28-year-old, went to live by himself in the woods
in Massachusetts. He stayed for over two years, living
self-sufficiently in a small cabin built with his own hands. Walden
is his personal account of the experience, in which he documents
the beauty and fulfilment to be found in the wilderness, and his
philosophical and political motivations for rejecting the
materialism which continues to define our modern world.
A beautiful illustrated edition of Thoreau's classic treatise on
man and nature. "Our life is frittered away by detail. . . .
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!" Henry David Thoreau built his
small cabin on the shore of Walden Pond in 1845. For the next two
years, he lived there as simply as possible, learning to eliminate
the unnecessary material and spiritual details that intrude upon
human happiness. Thoreau described his experiences in Walden, using
vivid, forceful prose that transforms his reflections on nature
into richly evocative metaphors. In a world obsessed with
technology and luxury, this American classic about seeking "the
essential facts of life" seems more relevant today than ever. This
beautiful, fully illustrated edition of Walden brings a rarely seen
visual and artistic dimension to Thoreau's philosophical
masterpiece.
In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his pencil-manufacturing business and began building a cabin on the shore of Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. This lyrical yet practical-minded book is at once a record of the 26 months Thoreau spent in withdrawal from society -- an account of the daily minutiae of building, planting, hunting, cooking, and, always, observing nature -- and a declaration of independence from the oppressive mores of the world he left behind. Elegant, witty, and quietly searching, Walden remains the most persuasive American argument for simplicity of life clarity of conscience.
For the first time, the authoritative editions of works by major American novelists, poets, scholars, and essayists collected in the hardcover volumes of The Library of America are being published singly in a series of handsome paperback books. A distinguished writer has contributed an introduction for each volume, which also includes a chronology of the author's life and career, an essay on the text, and notes.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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