Description |
xv, 318 pages ; 18 cm |
Contents |
Introduction / W.S. Merwin -- Walden : or, Life in the woods -- Economy -- Where I lived, and what I lived for -- Reading -- Sounds -- Solitude -- Visitors -- The bean-field -- The village -- The ponds -- Baker farm -- Higher laws -- Brute neighbors -- House-warming -- Former inhabitants ; and winter visitors -- Winter animals -- The pond in winter -- Spring -- Conclusion -- On the duty of civil disobedience -- Poems: Sic vita; Winter memories; To the maiden in the east; Smoke; Mist; Inspiration; Afterword / W. Howarth -- Selected bibliography. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-318). |
Summary |
With their call for"simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!", for self-honesty, and for harmony with nature, the writings of Henry David Thoreau are perhaps the most influential philosophical works in all American literature. The selections in tis volume represent Thoreau at his best. Included in their entirety are Walden, his indisputable masterpiece, and his two great arguments for nonconformity, Civil Disobedience and Life Without Principle. A lifetime of brilliant observation of nature -- and of himself -- is recorded in selections from A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers, Cape Cod, The Maine Woods and The Journal. |
Contents |
Walden, or, Life in the woods -- Civil disobedience. |
Subject |
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Homes and haunts -- Massachusetts -- Walden Woods.
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Thoreau, Henry David -- Homes and haunts -- Massachusetts -- Walden Woods.
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Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862. (OCoLC)fst00029125
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Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 Walden.
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Walden Woods (Mass.) -- Social life and customs.
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Wilderness areas -- Massachusetts -- Walden Woods.
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Natural history -- Massachusetts -- Walden Woods.
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Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography.
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Solitude.
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Civil disobedience.
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Wilderness areas -- Massachusetts -- Walden Woods.
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Natural history -- Massachusetts -- Walden Woods.
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Authors, American -- Biography. -- 19th century.
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Solitude.
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Civil disobedience.
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Walden Woods (Mass.) -- Social life and customs.
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Authors, American. (OCoLC)fst00821764
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Civil disobedience. (OCoLC)fst00862481
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Homes. (OCoLC)fst01353235
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Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
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Natural history. (OCoLC)fst01034268
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Solitude. (OCoLC)fst01125561
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Wilderness areas. (OCoLC)fst01175164
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Massachusetts -- Walden Woods.
(OCoLC)fst01268910
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Civil disobedience.
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Chronological Term |
1800-1899
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Genre/Form |
Biography.
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Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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Biographies.
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Added Author |
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Walden.
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Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Civil disobedience.
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Merwin, W. S. (William Stanley), 1927-2019 writer of introduction.
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Howarth, William L., 1940- writer of afterword.
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Added Title |
Walden
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Life in the woods |
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Civil disobedience |
ISBN |
9780451532169 (paperback) |
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0451532163 (paperback) |
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