The Portable Thoreau
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- Paperback
656 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2012
Summary
Self-described as “a mystic, a transcendentalist, and a natural philosopher to boot,” Henry David Thoreau dedicated his life to preserving his freedom as a man and as an artist. Nature was the fountainhead of his inspiration and his refuge from what he considered the follies of society. Heedless of his friends’ advice to live in a more orthodox manner, he determinedly pursued his own inner bent—that of a poet-philosopher—in prose and verse. Edited by noted Thoreau scholar Jeffrey S. Cramer, t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143106500 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143106503 |
| Author: | Henry Thoreau |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 656 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2012 |
| Weight: | 436g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 29mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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About The Author
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.
Jeffrey S. Cramer is the Curator of Collections at the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods. He is the editor of the award-winning Walden—A Fully Annotated Edition, The Quotable Thoreau, among other books. He lives in Maynard, Massachusetts.
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