Walden and Civil Disobedience
$26.70
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
26 January 1984
Summary
Henry David Thoreau’s masterwork Walden is a collection of his reflections on life and society. In 1845, he moved to a cabin that he built with his own hands along the shores of Walden Pond in Massachusetts.
A transcendentalist classic on social responsibility and a manifesto that inspired modern protest movements. Critical of 19th-century America’s booming commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thoreau moved to a small cabin in the woods of Concord, Massachusetts in 18…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140390445 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140390448 |
| Author: | Henry Thoreau, Michael Meyer |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 26 January 1984 |
| Weight: | 230g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 130mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Penguin American Library |
| Audience Age: | 14-18 |
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Henry Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1817. He graduated from Harvard in 1837, the same year he began his lifelong Journal. Inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thoreau became a key member of the Transcendentalist movement that included Margaret Fuller and Bronson Alcott.
The Transcendentalists’ faith in nature was tested by Thoreau between 1845 and 1847 when he lived for twenty-six months in a homemade hut at Walden Pond. While living at Walden, Thoreau worked on the two books published during his lifetime: Walden (1854) and A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849). Several of his other works, including The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, and Excursions, were published posthumously. Thoreau died in Concord, at the age of forty-four, in 1862.
Kristen Case teaches at the University of Maine at Farmington, where she is associate professor of English. She is the author of American Pragmatism and Poetic Practice: Crosscurrents from Emerson to Susan Howe and Little Arias, a collection of poems. She is coeditor of Thoreau at 200: Essays and Reassessments and has published articles on Thoreau, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, and William James. She lives in Temple, Maine.
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