
The Portable Thoreau
Henry Thoreau(Author)
Penguin Classics (Publisher)
Published on 6. September 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
656 pages
978-0-14-310650-0 (ISBN)
Description
Self-described as 'a mystic, a transcendentalist, and a natural philosopher to boot', Henry David Thoreau dedicated his life to preserving his freedom as a man and as an artist. Nature was the fountainhead of his inspiration and his refuge from what he considered the follies of society. Heedless of his friends' advice to live in a more orthodox manner, he determinedly pursued his own inner bent - that of a poet-philosopher - in prose and verse, in his masterpiece Walden, from which this work is taken. Edited by noted Thoreau scholar Jeffrey S. Cramer, this edition is the new standard for those interested in discovering the great thinker's influential ideas about everything from environmentalism to limited government.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Penguin Books Ltd
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 204 mm
Width: 131 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
436 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-310650-0 (9780143106500)
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Henry David Thoreau | Jeffrey S. Cramer
The Portable Thoreau
E-Book
03/2012
Penguin Classics
€9.99
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Previous edition
Henry David Thoreau | Carl Bode
The Portable Thoreau
Book
03/1980
Viking Portable Library
€33.63
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Person
Henry David Thoreau (1817-62) was born in Concord, Massachusetts and educated at Harvard. He became a follower and a friend of Emerson, and described himself as a mystic and a transcendentalist. Although he published only two books in his lifetime, Walden (from which this book is taken) is regarded as a literary masterpeice and one of the most significant books of the nineteenth century.