Author: Henry David ThoreauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The Heart of Thoreau's Journals
Author: Henry David ThoreauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The Heart of Thoreau's Journals
Author: Odell ShepardPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486118894
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The conflict between scientific observation and poetry, reflections on abolition, transcendental philosophy, other concerns are explored in this superb general selection from Thoreau's voluminous Journal.
The Heart of Thoreau's Journals
Author: Henry David ThoreauPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486207414
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The conflict between scientific observation and poetry, reflections on abolition, transcendental philosophy, other concerns are explored in this superb general selection from Thoreau's voluminous Journal. Here are "...the choicest fruits of Thoreau..." ? Nation.
˜Theœ heart of Henry David Thoreau's journals
Author: Henry David ThoreauThe Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861
Author: Henry David ThoreauPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 159017321X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 707
Book Description
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.”
The Heart of Thoreau's Journals
Author: Henry David ThoreauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Journal of Henry D. Thoreau
Author: Henry David ThoreauThe heart of Thoreau's journals
Author: Henry David ThoreauThe Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861
Author: Henry David ThoreauPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590174402
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 707
Book Description
The largest one-volume edition of Thoreau’s 25-year journal, with “some of the most vigorous and original prose in English” and insights into the origins of Walden and other works (Washington Post). 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. This is 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.” “ . . . a superb and uniquely accessible edition of an essential American masterpiece.” —Booklist
Henry David Thoreau
Author: Laura Dassow WallsPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022634469X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
"[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."--