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21. Journal of Henry David Thoreau 1837-1861 by Henry David Thoreau | |
Paperback: 14
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(1984-11)
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22. Henry David Thoreau : Collected Essays and Poems (Library of America) by Henry David Thoreau | |
Hardcover: 703
Pages
(2001-04-23)
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A treasure. To this day, transcendentalist philosophy, and Thoreau's work in particular, has proven enormously influential - on the program of the British Labour Party as much as on people as diverse as spiritual leaders Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. on the one hand and rock star Don Henley on the other hand.Henley in the 1990s even went so far as to found the Walden Woods Project, teaming up with the Thoreau Society to preserve as much as possible of Walden Woods and the land around Concord, and foster education about Thoreau.Yet, during his life time only few of his many works, now considered so influential, were published, and even those did not find wide distribution."I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself," he commented on the poor sales of his "Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers." This collection, one of two Library of America volumes dedicated to Thoreau's works and edited by renowned Thoreau scholar Elizabeth Hall Witherell, presents the majority of his essays and poems, from well-known works such as "Civil Disobedience," "Life Without Principle" and "Walking" to a large body of lesser known (but just as quotable!) writings and loving observations of nature ("Autumnal Tints," "Wild Apples," "Huckleberries").A companion volume, edited by Robert F. Sayre, contains Thoreau's four longest publications ("A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers," "The Maine Woods," "Cape Cod" and, of course, "Walden") - thus omitting from the Library of America series only his extensive journals and the posthumously published "Faith in a Seed," a collection of four manuscripts left partially unfinished at Thoreau's death in 1862 and published for the first time in the late 1990s, to much fanfare among Thoreauvians the world over. Introspective to a fault, the man who once built a cabin on Walden Pond and for over two years lived the life of a hermit, was also a keen observer; of nature as much as of the world surrounding him.The shallowness and greed he saw in so-called "civil" society filled him with skepticism ("intellectual and moral suicide," he scoffed in "Life Without Principle") - and with the tireless need to encourage free thinking and personal independence."I wish to speak a word for Nature," he thus opened his essay on "Walking," and explained that he sought to make a point in favor of "absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil, - to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society."And he went on to mourn the fact that few people were truly able to walk and travel freely, to leave behind the social bounds that tied them down, and to open up to nature's beauty.This, of course, echoed his famous statements in "Walden" that "the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation;" that however, as he had learned by his "experiment" on Walden Pond, "if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."And this was the same spirit who, staunchly opposed to both slavery and to the Mexican War, would rather spend a night in jail than pay his taxes, and who summed up his posture in "Civil Disobedience" by saying that "I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right" - a statement echoed roughly a hundred years later when Mahatma Gandhi told an English court that he believed that "non-cooperation with evil is a duty and British rule of India is evil," and also resonating through the publications of many an American civil rights leader, first and foremost Martin Luther King Jr. While I had read much of Thoreau's work already before I discovered the Library of America collections, I am extremely pleased to see the majority of his body of work reunited in two volumes in this dignified series.For one thing, while there are innumerable compilations containing "Walden" and some of his other better-known works, it is still difficult to get a hold of Thoreau's lesser known essays and poems.Moreover, though, and more importantly, reading his works in the context provided by this collection makes for much greater insight into the man's personality, and his philosophy as a whole.While a biography certainly adds perspective, nothing surpasses the experience of reading Thoreau's works in context - and in the context of the works of other Transcendentalists, first and foremost Emerson.This is a true literary treasure: to behold, cherish and read again and again.
...could be worth it
An American Original |
23. Henry David Thoreau and the Moral Agency of Knowing by Alfred I. Tauber | |
Hardcover: 119
Pages
(2003-01-06)
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Thoreau's Response to Post- Modernism |
24. Henry David's House by Henry David Thoreau | |
Paperback: 32
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(2007-02)
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The beauty, power and subtlety of solitary living
Living the Simple Life.....
A great introduction to Thoreau for young readers.
Gorgeous illustrations set to Thoreau's words I'm not sure that its target audience should be very young children. If kids pull this one off the shelf, the meaning of the words will be lost on them, and the artwork that goes along with the text won't build the story on its own. Though full of the Walden spirit, this book isn't as engaging to the youngest readers as D. B. Johnson's similar _Henry Builds a Cabin_ or _Henry Hikes to Fitchburg_. Perhaps its best use would be as a multigenerational preface to Thoreau's work, with teacher-student or parent-child combinations reading the book together. _Henry David's House_ could introduce middle school and high school students to the literary and scientific portions of _Walden_ and could serve as a first step in their acquaintance with the author. Teens and pre-teens may balk at being read to, but they're also visual learners who are at an age to appreciate the presentation here. And if it inspires them to pick up Thoreau's classic to read for themselves, so much the better. ... Read more |
25. Walden (Concord Library) by Henry David Thoreau | |
Paperback: 312
Pages
(2004-07-15)
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26. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Journal, Volume 8: 1854. (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau) by Henry David Thoreau | |
Hardcover: 507
Pages
(2002-05-06)
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Editorial Review Book Description From 1837 to 1861, Thoreau kept a Journal that began as a conventional record of ideas, grew into a writer's notebook, and eventually became the principal imaginative work of his career. The source of much of his published writing, the Journal is also a record of his interior life and of his monumental studies of the natural history of his native Concord, Massachusetts. Unlike earlier editions, the Princeton edition reproduces the Journal in its original and complete form, in a reading text free of editorial interpolations but keyed to a comprehensive scholarly apparatus. Journal 8: 1854 is edited from the 467-page notebook that Thoreau kept February 13-September 3, 1854. It reveals him as an increasingly confident taxonomist creating lists that distill his observations about plant leafing and seasonal birds. Two particularly significant public events took place in his life in the summer of 1854. On July 4, at an antislavery rally at Framingham, Massachusetts, Thoreau appeared for the first time in the company of prominent abolitionists, delivering as heated a statement against slavery as he had yet made. And on August 9, Ticknor and Fields published Walden, the book Thoreau had been working on since 1846. In Journal 8 Thoreau indicates that these public accomplishments, though satisfying, took a toll on his creative life and did not fully compensate him for the hours spent away from the woods. |
27. New Suns Will Arise : From the Journals of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau, Frank Crocitto | |
Hardcover: 80
Pages
(2000-12-01)
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Editorial Review Book Description Nothing must be postponed. Take time by the forelock. Now or never! You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment... The essays of Henry David Thoreau resonate with a love for life, nature, and simplicity. But his concern for the natural world and passion for living life to its fullest are perhaps best illustrated in his rarely read journals. Encompassing the whole of his writing career, these journals convey a startling insight, zest for life, and admiration for the power of the individual. This breathtaking book combines selected journal entries -many never before published - with the poignant, ethereal photography of internationally renowned photographer John Dugdale. Developed using an early photographic process, these unique cyanotypes echo the beauty of a time forgotten and the strength and spirit of one of America's best-loved writers. Customer Reviews (2)
Great quotes and pictures
SIGHT BEYOND THE PHYSICAL Dugdale has, for many years, been one of my favorite photographers.He uses a process for printing his photographs called cyanotype which was invented during the time that Thoreau lived and worked.The wonderful elegance and simplicity of his subjects and images fits perfectly with Thoreau's philosophies of life.Dugdale, because of HIV, is 80% blind, but, somehow, uses what sight he has combined with a pure spirituality and sight beyond the physical to create images of rare beauty. So, we see a single rose alongside these words of Thoreau:"Love is the burden of all Nature's odes..."A still-life of flowers, two birds, which may be made of milk glass, and a human hand are viewed with Thoreau's "Perhaps what most moves us in winter is some reminiscence of far-off summer...;" a solitary man with one hand against an old, tall tree by a pond and a field are perfect for Thoreau's "Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each..."And perhaps most moving of all, part of the back of a nude man is used with Thoreau's "My life was ecstasy.In youth, before I lost any of my senses, I can remember that I was all alive, and inhabited my body with inexpressible satisfaction..." The book begins with two short, wonderfully written appreciations of the artists by Frank Crocitto. This collection is magnificent beyond any contemporary words.HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. ... Read more |
28. Journal, Volume 5 by Henry David Thoreau | |
Hardcover: 616
Pages
(1997-07-07)
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Editorial Review Book Description From 1837 to 1861 Thoreau kept a journal that began as a conventional record of ideas, grew into a writer's notebook, and eventually became the principal imaginative work of his career. The source of much of his published writing, the Journal is also a record of both his interior life and his monumental studies of the natural history of his native Concord, Massachusetts. In contrast to earlier editions, the Princeton Edition reproduces the Journal in its original and complete form, in a reading text that is free of editorial interpolations but keyed to a comprehensive scholarly apparatus. Covering an annual cycle from spring 1852 to late winter 1853, Journal 5 finds Thoreau intensely concentrating on detailed observations of natural phenomena and on "the mysterious relation between myself & these things" that he always strove to understand. Increasingly, the Journal attempts to balance a new found scientific professionalism and the accurate recording of phenological data with a firmly rooted belief in the spiritual correspondences that Nature reveals. Fittingly, the year of observation ends with Thoreau pondering an invitation to join the Association for the Advancement of Science, an invitation he ultimately declined in order to pursue his own life studies. Customer Reviews (1)
A day by day look at Thoreau |
29. Henry David Thoreau: In Step with Nature by Elizabeth Ring | |
Library Binding: 48
Pages
(1993-03-01)
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A fair introduction to HDT |
30. H. D. Thoreau: A Writer's Journal by Henry David Thoreau | |
Paperback: 234
Pages
(1960-06)
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The best of Thoreau's journal (Is he speaking to *us* or to *himself*?) We also see publication notes of the two books released during Thoreau's lifetime, _A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers_ and _Walden_.We read discourses and ramblings that will later become essays like "Slavery in Massachusetts" and "A Plea for Captain John Brown."The latter are served without any intrusion from the editor, so the savvy reader might need to brush up on pre-Civil War history to put the words into context.Thoreau's discussions about putting pen to paper make the audience feel almost guilty for spending time reading, not writing.A volume that can be appreciated by nature-lovers, contemporary transcendentalists and writers alike. ... Read more |
31. The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau (Cambridge Companions to Literature) | |
Paperback: 248
Pages
(1995-06-30)
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A valuable guide to Thoreau's work... |
32. Walden, or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau | |
Hardcover: 522
Pages
(2007-05-31)
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33. Henry David Thoreau: Cycles and Psyche by MD, Michael Sperber | |
Paperback: 149
Pages
(2004-09-01)
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An in-depth psychological case study |
34. Thoreau: A Book of Quotations (Dover Thrift Editions) by Henry David Thoreau | |
Paperback: 64
Pages
(2000-12-20)
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35. Into the Deep Forest: With Henry David Thoreau by Jim Murphy | |
Hardcover: 39
Pages
(1995-03-27)
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Thoreau's Maine trips: consolidated, condensed & illustrated |
36. Daily Observations: Thoreau On The Days Of The Year (The Spirit of Thoreau) by Steve Grant, Henry David Thoreau | |
Paperback: 109
Pages
(2005-10-30)
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37. The Works of Henry David Thoreau: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers/Cape Cod/Civil Disobedience/Walden by Henry David Thoreau | |
Hardcover:
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(1995-04)
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38. Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Natural Science (Science and Literature Series) by Laura Dassow, Laura Dassow Walls | |
Paperback: 316
Pages
(1995-09)
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understanding the nature of HDT's understanding of nature
inspiring!
Walls opens windows to Thoreau's scientific world view! |
39. The New Thoreau Handbook (The Gotham Library of the New York University Press) by Walter Harding, Michael Meyer | |
Hardcover: 238
Pages
(1980-04-01)
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40. Material Faith: Thoreau on Science by J. Parker Huber | |
Paperback: 144
Pages
(1999-05-31)
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