WALDEN AND OTHER WRITINGS. Edited With A Biographical Introduction By Brooks Atkinson. Foreword By Townsend Scutter.

Thoreau, Henry David

ISBN 10: 0394604210 / ISBN 13: 9780394604213

Published by NY. 1965. Modern Library, 1977

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brown shiny faux leather "leatherette" hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. like new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. printing # not given. xxiv+732p. american literature. memoirs. autobiography. philosophy. politics. civil disobedience. a plea for captain john brown. slavery in massachusetts. a week on the concord. ~ Henry David Thoreau's vision of personal freedom~ the concept that moral law and the dictates of the individual conscience are superior to civil law ~and governmental statutes~ has become part of the American heritage, particularly pertinent to our own times. Thoreau spent his life listening to "a different drummer," and in following his belief that the individual could lead a life of simplicity and independence apart from social organization and material civilization, he anticipated one of the major themes of contemporary America. His writings communicate his thoughts and offer us his personal vision of life as well as its transformation into a practical working philosophy on which he based his life style. This volume contains the full text of Walden as well as the essays Civil Disobedience, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea For Captain John Brown, Life Without Principle, and many of the famous nature studies. The editor, Brooks Atkinson has coontributed a penetrating critical and biographical introduction.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: WALDEN AND OTHER WRITINGS. Edited With A Biographical Introduction By Brooks Atkinson. Foreword By Townsend Scutter.
• Publisher: NY. 1965. Modern Library
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394604210
• ISBN 13: 9780394604213
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • american civil war
  • american literature
  • philosophy

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Synopsis

Presents the complete writings of the nineteenth-century social philosopher and reformer

Book Description

Edited, with an Introduction, by William Howarth