Henry David Thoreau: Walden, The Maine Woods, Collected Essays and Poems: A Library of America College Edition - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1598530100 ISBN 13: 9781598530100

Publisher: The Library of America, 2007

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub the Date: 2007 Jun Pages: 1247 Publisher: Liary of America Thoreau's political withwriting is intensely personal and direct. Both his life and work focus uncompromisingly on the question how should I live This edition of Thoreau's political essays includes Civil Disobedience. selections from Walden. and the anti-slavery addresses.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

From the Back Cover:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Library of America
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1598530100
• ISBN 13: 9781598530100
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1264
• Editor: Sayre Robert F., Witherell Elizabeth Hall