The Portable Thoreau (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Thoreau, Henry David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143106503 ISBN 13: 9780143106500

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 2012

Synopsis

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, in his masterpiece Walden, from which this work is taken. Edited by noted Thoreau scholar Jeffrey S. Cramer, this edition is the new standard for those interested in discovering the great thinker's influential ideas about everything from environmentalism to limited government.

About this title

About the Author:

Henry David Thoreau (1817-62) was born in Concord, Massachusetts and educated at Harvard. He became a follower and a friend of Emerson, and described himself as a mystic and a transcendentalist. Although he published only two books in his lifetime, Walden (from which this book is taken) is regarded as a literary masterpeice and one of the most significant books of the nineteenth century.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0143106503
• ISBN 13: 9780143106500
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 656
• Editor: Cramer Jeffrey S.