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Walden and Other Writings

By Henry David Thoreau
Introduction by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edited by Brooks Atkinson

By Henry David Thoreau
Introduction by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edited by Brooks Atkinson

By Henry David Thoreau

By Henry David Thoreau

By Henry David Thoreau
Edited by Brooks Atkinson

By Henry David Thoreau
Edited by Brooks Atkinson

By Henry David Thoreau

By Henry David Thoreau

By Henry David Thoreau

By Henry David Thoreau

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    About Walden and Other Writings

    Introduction by Ralph Waldo Emerson
    Commentary by Van Wyck Brooks and E. B. White
     
    Naturalist, philosopher, champion of self-reliance and moral independence, Henry David Thoreau remains not only one of our most influential writers but also one of our most contemporary. This unique and comprehensive edition gathers all of Thoreau’s most significant works, including his masterpiece, Walden (reproduced in its entirety); A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers; selections from Cape Cod and The Maine Woods; as well as “Walking,” “Civil Disobedience,” “Slavery in Massachusetts,” “A Plea for Captain John Brown,” and “Life Without Principle.” Taken together, they reveal the astounding range, subtlety, artistry, and depth of thought of this true American original. 
     
    Includes a Modern Library Reading Group Guide

    About Walden and Other Writings

    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 this 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.

    About Walden and Other Writings

    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 this 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.

    About Walden and Other Writings

    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 this 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.

    About Walden and Other Writings

    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.

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    About Henry David Thoreau

    Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12, 1817, in Concord, Massachusetts. His father worked successively as a farmer, a grocer, and a manufacturer of pencils, and the family was frequently in difficult financial straits. After studying locally, Thoreau won… More about Henry David Thoreau

    About Henry David Thoreau

    Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12, 1817, in Concord, Massachusetts. His father worked successively as a farmer, a grocer, and a manufacturer of pencils, and the family was frequently in difficult financial straits. After studying locally, Thoreau won… More about Henry David Thoreau

    About Henry David Thoreau

    Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12, 1817, in Concord, Massachusetts. His father worked successively as a farmer, a grocer, and a manufacturer of pencils, and the family was frequently in difficult financial straits. After studying locally, Thoreau won… More about Henry David Thoreau

    About Henry David Thoreau

    Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12, 1817, in Concord, Massachusetts. His father worked successively as a farmer, a grocer, and a manufacturer of pencils, and the family was frequently in difficult financial straits. After studying locally, Thoreau won… More about Henry David Thoreau

    About Henry David Thoreau

    Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12, 1817, in Concord, Massachusetts. His father worked successively as a farmer, a grocer, and a manufacturer of pencils, and the family was frequently in difficult financial straits. After studying locally, Thoreau won… More about Henry David Thoreau

    Product Details

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Modern Library
    Nov 14, 2000 | 848 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679783343

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

    Mass Market Paperback | $5.95
    Published by Bantam Classics
    Sep 01, 1983 | 464 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-7/8 | ISBN 9780553212464

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

    Hardcover | $21.00
    Published by Modern Library
    Sep 05, 1992 | 784 Pages | 4-11/16 x 7-1/4 | ISBN 9780679600046

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $1.99
    Published by Bantam Classics
    Oct 26, 2004 | 464 Pages | ISBN 9780553900774

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $2.99
    Published by Modern Library
    Nov 01, 2000 | 784 Pages | ISBN 9780679642022
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