Walden and Other Writings

English

Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.

ISBN: 0679783342

EAN: 9780679783343

Category: Biography & Autobiography / Literary/Literary Criticism / American / General/Psychology / General/Social Science / Customs & Traditions/

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

Release Date: 11/12/2000

Synopsis: With their call for simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!, for self-honesty, and for harmony with nature, the writings of Henry David Thoreau are perhaps the most influential philosophical works in all American literature. The selections in this volume represent Thoreau at his best. Included in their entirety areWalden, his indisputable masterpiece, and his two great arguments for nonconformity,Civil DisobedienceandLife Without Principle. A lifetime of brilliant observation of nature--and of himself--is recorded in selections fromA Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers, Cape Cod, The Maine WoodsandThe Journal.

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Walden and Other Writings

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 1.17 inches

Width: 5.19 inches

Length: 8.0 inches

Weight: 21.02 oz

Pages: 848