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Great Short Works of Henry David Thoreau

Here reprinted in one volume is a distinguished collection of works that reflect the full range of Thoreau's writing. Included are: A Winter Walk, Ktaadn, Letters to H.G.O. Blake, Reform and the Reformers, Resistance to Civil Government [Civil Disobedience], Friendship, The Journal (six selections), Walden [Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, Reading, Higher Laws, Conclusion], Slavery in Massachusetts, The Shipwreck, A Plea for Captain Brown, Walking, Autumnal Tints, and Life without Principle.

"Of Thoreau's affinity for the natural world every reader of Thoreau is at once aware....Facts become transparent as he records them. He sees through them, making them symbolic vehicles for the creation of new forms of intellect and feeling and will, and for the reader, new and intense experiences to be lived through and aesthetically enjoyed. Few American writers match Thoreau in his awareness of the imaginative suggestiveness of sensory facts, or in his gift for transforming them for others into instruments of delight and self-knowledge." -from the Introduction

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 432
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-06-092379-2
  • EAN
  • 9780060923792
  • Genres
  • memoir, essays
  • Release date
  • 1993