Henry David Thoreau

Walden, Civil Disobedience and Other Writings

Herausgegeben:Rossi, William

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In addition to the texts of "Walden" and "Civil Disobedience", this title reprints the important works, "Slavery in Massachusetts", "Walking" and "Wild Apples". It includes the best critical writing on the texts by nineteen contributors.

Produktdetails

• Norton Critical Editions
• Verlag: Norton
• 3rd, rev. and exp. ed.
• Seitenzahl: 688
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 129mm x 213mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 666g
• ISBN-13: 9780393930900
• ISBN-10: 0393930904
• Artikelnr.: 22846775

Autorenporträt

Henry David Thoreau spent almost his entire life in the village of Concord, Massachusetts, where he was born in 1817. After graduating from Harvard College in 1837, he developed a deep friendship with the writer and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, the foremost figure in the Transcendentalist movement. Emerson's emphasis on the cultivation of intuition and experience as keys to personal and social enlightenment profoundly influenced Thoreau. In 1845, Thoreau built a small cabin on a parcel of land Emerson owned near Walden Pond, where he lived for most of two years, seeking a new relationship to nature, society, and his own self. His experiences there are the raw material of his masterpiece, Walden, or Life in the Woods. Although he was first and last a writer and outdoorsman, Thoreau worked as a surveyor and handyman and was an active abolitionist and opponent of war and imperialism. He died in 1862 of tuberculosis.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents:
- Preface
- A Note on the Texts
- The Texts of Walden, Civil Disobedience, and Other Writings
- Journal
- Reviews and Posthumous Assessments
- Modern Criticism
- A Chronology
- Selected Bibliography