Henry David Thoreau: Walden, the Maine Woods, Collected Essays and Poems - (Library of America College Editions) (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Complete edition of political essays by eloquent and influential American writer.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Here, in one volume for the first time, are the most important works of Henry David Thoreau, America's greatest nature writer and a political thinker of worldwide influence. A landmark in American literature, <i>Walden</i> is at once a personal declaration of independence, a social experiment, a manual of self-reliance, and a masterpiece of style. <i>The Maine Woods</i> combines close observation of the unexplored Maine wilderness with a far-sighted plea for conservation. Including Civil Disobedience, Walking, and Life Without Principle, the 27 essays gathered here reflect Thoreau's speculative and probing cast of mind. In his poems, presented here in versions from his journals and manuscripts, Thoreau gave voice to his private sentiments and spiritual aspirations in the plain style of New England speech.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>In her introduction, Nancy L. Rosenblum places the essays in the context of Thoreau's life of self-examination, and the debates about the abolition of slavery, and she analyzes the themes of citizenship and resistance that have made Thoreau an enduring influence in political philosophy and practice.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Henry David Thoreau</b> 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: <b>Walden</b> (1854) and <b>A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers</b> (1849). Several of his other works, including <b>The Maine Woods, Cape Cod</b>, and <b>Excursions</b>, were published posthumously. Thoreau died in Concord, at the age of forty-four, in 1862.
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