Walden or Life in the Woods and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience: 150th Anniversary Edition - Brossura

Thoreau, Henry David

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ISBN 10: 0451529456 ISBN 13: 9780451529459

Casa editrice: Signet Classic, 2010

Riassunto

This 150th anniversary edition once again brings to life Thoreau's classic account of his experiment in simple living at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts, and is accompanied by "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience," a protest against governmental interference with individual rights and liberty. Original.

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Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1817. He graduated from Harvard in 1837, the same year he began his lifelong Journal. Inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thoreau became a key member of the Transcendentalist movement that included Margaret Fuller and Bronson Alcott. The Transcendentalists' faith in nature was tested by Thoreau between 1845 and 1847 when he lived for twenty-six months in a homemade hut at Walden Pond. While living at Walden, Thoreau worked on the two books published during his lifetime: Walden (1854) and A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849). Several of his other works, including The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, and Excursions, were published posthumously. Thoreau died in Concord, at the age of forty-four, in 1862.
W.S. Merwin has published many highly regarded books of poems, for which he has received a number of distinguished awards?the Pulitzer Prize, Bollingen Award, Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets and the Governor's Award for Literature of the state of Hawaii among them. He has translated widely from many languages, and his versions of classics such as The Poem of the Cid and The Song of Roland are standards.

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Book by Henry David Thoreau

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• Editore: Signet Classic
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0451529456
• ISBN 13: 9780451529459
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 305