Walden - Brossura

Thoreau, Henry David

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0691014647 ISBN 13: 9780691014647

Casa editrice: Princeton University Press, 1989

Riassunto

On July 4, 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved into the cabin he had built on the shore of Walden Pond, thus beginning the most famous experiment in simple living in American history. On the 150th anniversary of that event, Houghton Mifflin, successor to Thoreau's original publisher, is proud to publish a new edition of Walden, annotated by the distinguished Thoreau scholar Walter Harding and illustrated with Thoreau's own drawings. Even those who have read Walden many times will find much that is new in this edition, and those reading the book for the first time will discover why it has changed the lives of generations of readers.

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Recensione:

"Each [volume] is preceded by a substantive, lively and idiosyncratic essay. . . . Together, the essays are a mini-course in Thoreau and the trends he launched in American thought."--Nancy Szokan, Washington Post Book World

Contenuti:

Introduction by John Updike
Economy 3
Where I Lived, and What I lived For 81
Reading 99
Sounds 111
Solitude 129
Visitors 140
The Bean-Field 155
The Village 167
The Ponds 173
Baker farm 201
Higher Laws 210
Brute Neighbors 223
House-Warming 238
Former Inhabitants; and Winter Visitors 256
Winter Animals 271
The Pond in Winter 282
Spring 299
Conclusion 320
Index by Paul O. Williams 335

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Princeton University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0691014647
• ISBN 13: 9780691014647
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 376
• Redattore: Shanley J. Lyndon