Find Request It

Cover Image

Walden and other writings of Henry David Thoreau

Presents Thoreau's reflections on his experience living alone in the woods surrounding Walden Pond as well as his philosophy concerning man's need to reevaluate life and commune with nature.

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
Other Authors:	Atkinson, Brooks, 1894-1984
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Modern Library, 1992.
Edition:	Modern Library ed.
Series:	Modern library of the world's best books.
Subjects:	Thoreau, Henry David, > 1817-1862 > Homes and haunts > Massachusetts > Walden Woods. Walden Woods (Mass.) > Social life and customs. Wilderness areas > Massachusetts > Walden Woods. Natural history > Massachusetts > Walden Woods. Authors, American > 19th century > Biography. Solitude. Biographies.
Tags:	Add Tag No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

Description
Summary:	Presents Thoreau's reflections on his experience living alone in the woods surrounding Walden Pond as well as his philosophy concerning man's need to reevaluate life and commune with nature.
Item Description:	Series statement from jacket.
Physical Description:	xii, 769 pages ; 20 cm. Also issued online.
ISBN:	0679600043 9780679600046
Author Notes:	Henry David Thoreau was born July 12, 1817 - "just in the nick of time," as he wrote, for the "flowering of New England," when the area boasted such eminent citizens as Emerson, Hawthorne, Whitman and Melville. Raised in genteel poverty - his father made and sold pencils from their home - Thoreau enjoyed, nevertheless, a fine education, graduating from Harvard in 1837. In that year, the young thinker met Emerson and formed the close friendship that became the most significant of his life. Guided, sponsored and aided by his famous older colleague, Thoreau began to publish essays in The Dial, exhibiting the radical originality that would gain the disdain of his contemporaries but the great admiration of all succeeding generations. In 1845, Thoreau began the living experiment for which he is most famous. During his two years and two months in the shack beside the New England pond, he wrote his first important work, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), was arrested for refusing to pay his poll tax to a government that supported slavery (recorded in "Civil Disobedience") and gathered the material for his masterpiece, Walden (1854). He spent the rest of his life writing and lecturing and died, relatively unappreciated, in 1862.