Letters to a Spiritual Seeker - Hardcover

Thoreau, Henry David; Dean, Bradley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393059413 ISBN 13: 9780393059410

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co., 2004

Synopsis

Henry David Thoreau is famous for the literary excellence of his political and nature writings but his friend Harrison Blake understood that the significance of Thoreau's life was in fact spiritual, and he asked him for guidance in finding a path of his own. The result was a regular exchange of letters charting the evolution of Thoreau as a writer and thinker. The fifty letters, assembled and annotated here are by turns earnest, oracular, witty, playful, practical, insightful and inspiring.

About this title

Review:

"I open this book at random and find daily strength in Thoreau's words that gives me courage .... This is a book I keep on my desk as a record of shared faith."

I open this book at random and find daily strength in Thoreau's words that gives me courage. . . .This is a book I keep on my desk as a record of shared faith. --Terry Tempest Williams, author of Leap and The Open Space of Democracy"

About the Author:

Bradley P. Dean, an independent scholar living in West Peterborough, New Hampshire, has written extensively on Thoreau's life and writings, and has edited two of Thoreau's previously unpublished booklength manuscripts.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0393059413
• ISBN 13: 9780393059410
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192