The Portable Thoreau

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From the shores of Walden Pond Thoreau looked at man, and at nature and society as well. In the space of two years and two months he had formulated two of the notable books of his century, along with a number of significant essays. Heedless of his friends* advice to live in a more orthodox manner, he dedicated his life to preserving his own freedom as a man and an artist. Determinedly he pursued his own innner bent, which was that of a poet-philosopher in prose and verse. Nature was the fountain-head of his inspiration and his refuge from what he considered I the follies of society; thus he took enthusiastically to the Tran-scendentalist philosophy of Emerson, one of his few intimates.
Here is the best of Thoreau s output—the complete text of the classic Walden, and generous selections from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers; sections from The Mainel Woods and the Journal; and a number of the writer's most characteristic essays, including the famous "Civil Disobedience,"... Tovább

Fülszöveg

From the shores of Walden Pond Thoreau looked at man, and at nature and society as well. In the space of two years and two months he had formulated two of the notable books of his century, along with a number of significant essays. Heedless of his friends* advice to live in a more orthodox manner, he dedicated his life to preserving his own freedom as a man and an artist. Determinedly he pursued his own innner bent, which was that of a poet-philosopher in prose and verse. Nature was the fountain-head of his inspiration and his refuge from what he considered I the follies of society; thus he took enthusiastically to the Tran-scendentalist philosophy of Emerson, one of his few intimates.
Here is the best of Thoreau s output—the complete text of the classic Walden, and generous selections from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers; sections from The Mainel Woods and the Journal; and a number of the writer's most characteristic essays, including the famous "Civil Disobedience," and one from the less famous volume Cape Cod—the saltiest of his observations of man. There are also eighteen of his poems and the important "Last Days of John Brown."
"This compact book, containing infinite riches in a little room, is a simple setting for sound sense, nugget-like thought, the refined essences of a point of view."
—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"A very satisfactory distillation of Thoreau's writings."
—The New Yorker
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