Walden, the Maine woods, and collected essays & poems

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Title:

Author:

Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.

ISBN:

9781598530100

Personal Author:

Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.

Uniform Title:

Works. Selections. 2007

Edition:

1st Library of America college ed.

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

xii, 1247 pages ; 20 cm

Contents:

Walden; or, Life in the woods -- The Maine woods -- Essays: Aulus persius flaccus -- The service -- Natural history of Massachusetts -- A walk to Wachusett -- Sir Walter Raleigh -- Dark ages -- A winter walk -- The landlord -- Paradise (to be) regained -- Homer. Ossian. Chaucer. -- Herald of freedom -- Wendell Phillips before Concord lyceum -- Thomas Carlyle and his works -- Civil disobedience -- Walking -- A Yankee in Canada -- Love -- Chastity & sensuality -- Slavery in Massachusetts -- Life without principle -- Autumnal tints -- A plea for Captain John Brown -- Martyrdom of John Brown -- The last days of John Brown -- The succession of forest trees -- Wild apples -- Huckleberries -- Poems.

Personal Subject:

Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862-Homes and haunts-Massachusetts-Walden Woods.

Subject Term:

Wilderness areas -- Massachusetts -- Walden Woods.

Natural history -- Massachusetts -- Walden Woods.

Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography.

Solitude.

Geographic Term:

Maine -- Description and travel.

Walden Woods (Mass.) -- Social life and customs.

Added Author:

Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862. Walden.

Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862. Maine woods.

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Summary

Here, in one volume for the first time, are the most important works of Henry David Thoreau, America's greatest nature writer and a political thinker of worldwide influence. A landmark in American literature, Walden is at once a personal declaration of independence, a social experiment, a manual of self-reliance, and a masterpiece of style. The Maine Woods combines close observation of the unexplored Maine wilderness with a far-sighted plea for conservation. Including "Civil Disobedience," "Walking," and "Life Without Principle," the 27 essays gathered here reflect Thoreau's speculative and probing cast of mind. In his poems, presented here in versions from his journals and manuscripts, Thoreau gave voice to his private sentiments and spiritual aspirations in the plain style of New England speech.