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(0)Henry David Thoreau
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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Description
Interwoven with accounts of Thoreau's daily life (he did not live as a recluse but received visitors and almost daily walked into Concord) are meditations on human existence, society, government and other topics, expressed with clear-headed wisdom and remarkable beauty of style.
Author
Publisher
Signet Classics
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
With their call for"simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!", for self-honesty, and for harmony with nature, the writings of Henry David Thoreau are perhaps the most influential philosophical works in all American literature. The selections in tis volume represent Thoreau at his best. Included in their entirety are Walden, his indisputable masterpiece, and his two great arguments for nonconformity, Civil Disobedience and Life Without Principle. A lifetime...
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Language
English
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Description
One of the most famous non-fiction American books, Walden by Henry David Thoreau is the history of Thoreau's visit to Ralph Waldo Emerson's woodland retreat near Walden Pond. Thoreau, stirred by the philosophy of the transcendentalists, used the sojourn as an experiment in self reliance and minimalism… "so as to "live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not,
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Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1985
Language
English
Description
Henry David Thoreau wrote four full-length works, collected here in a single volume. Interweaving natural observation, personal experience, and historical lore, they reveal his brilliance not only as a writer, but as a naturalist, scholar, historian, poet, and philosopher. "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" is based on a boat trip taken with his brother from Concord, Massachusetts to Concord, New Hampshire. "Walden" is at once a personal...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
Philosopher, naturalist, poet and rugged individualist, Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) has inspired generations of readers to think for themselves, to follow the dictates of their own conscience and to make an art of their lives. This representative sampling of his thought includes five of his most frequently cited and read essays: 'Civil Disobedience, ' his most powerful and influential political essay, exalts the law of conscience over civil law....
19) Libro de citas
Author
Series
Pequeños libros de la sabiduría volume 72
Publisher
José J. de Olañeta
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
Español
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Author
Series
Pequeños libros de la sabiduría volume 29
Publisher
José J. de Olañeta
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
Español