 Author Name: Thoreau, Henry David
Title: Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Binding: TRADE PAPERBACK
Book Condition: Fair
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1948
Item#: KB005578
edge wear, some cover soiling, underlining; Henry Thoreau is considered, along with Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman and Nathaniel Hawthorne, as one of the leading figures in early American literature, and Walden is without doubt his most influential book. It recounts the author's experiences living in a small house in the woods around Walden Pond near Concord in Massachusetts. Thoreau constructed the house himself, with the help of a few friends, and one of the reasons why he moved into it was in an attempt to see if he could live independently and away from society. The result is an intriguing work that blends natural history with philosophical insights and includes many illuminating quotations from other authors. Thoreau's wooden shack has won a place for itself in the collective American psyche, a remarkable achievement for a book with such modest and rustic beginnings.
Price =
3.55 USD |
