Henry David Thoreau
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Collected here are nineteen essays by Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau was one of America's best known and most influential writers. His work has helped shape the American Discourse and had a lasting effect on the environmental movement in America. Included here are The Service, A Walk to Wachusett, Paradise (to be) Regained, The Landlord, Herald of Freedom, Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum, Reform and the Reformers, Thomas Carlyle and His Works,...
22) Walden
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Walden oder Leben in den Wäldern (engl. Originaltitel Walden; or, Life in the Woods) – auch als Walden oder Hüttenleben im Walde erschienen – ist ein Buch des amerikanischen Schriftstellers Henry David Thoreau aus dem Jahr 1854 über sein zeitweiliges Leben als Aussteiger, das zum „Klassiker aller Alternativen" wurde. n Walden beschreibt Thoreau sein Leben in einer Blockhütte, die er sich 1845 in den Wäldern von Concord (Massachusetts) am...
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This is volume V of 'The Writings of Henry David Thoreau'. Entitled 'Excursions, and Poems', it is primarily a collection of poetry and travelling accounts, although also included are a number of his translations. This book will appeal to all lovers of poetry and nature writing, and it is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Thoreau's wonderful work. Includes a specially commissioned new biography of the author.
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Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each.
Modernity rules our lives by clock and calendar, dividing the stream of time into units and coordinating every passing moment with the universal globe. Henry David Thoreau subverted both clock and calendar, using them not to regulate time's passing but to open up and explore its presence. This little volume thus embodies,...
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Una vida salvaje y desobediente es tanto una selección como una introducción a una obra que se ramifica a través de otros libros, escritos y biografías. Contiene acaso el ensayo más famoso de Thoreau, "Desobediencia civil", en el cual muestra su lado político; "Recolecciones (o lo que el tiempo no ha cosechado de mi diario)", las primeras entradas de su ya canónico diario, tan lleno de observaciones como de digresiones y muchos dardos-de madera-contra...
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"En juillet 1846, Henry David Thoreau est emprisonné car il a volontairement refusé de payer un impt à l'État américain. Par ce geste, il entendait protester contre l'esclavagisme qui régnait alors dans le Sud et la guerre américano-mexicaine. Il ne passe qu'une nuit en prison, car sa tante paie la caution, ce qui le rend furieux.
Ce livre était originellement intitulé Resistance to Civil Governement (Résistance au gouvernement civil) ;...
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Thoreau's friend Ralph Waldo Emerson gathered these letters and poems in 1865. The letters range in subject matter from love, sex, and marriage, to religion, philosophy, and everyday life. Thoreau's correspondents include his mother, his sisters Helen and Sophia, and Emerson himself.
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"Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!."
Henry David Thoreau built his small cabin on the shore of Walden Pond in 1845. For the next two years, he lived there as simply as possible, learning to eliminate the unnecessary material and spiritual details that intrude upon human happiness.
Thoreau described his experiences in Walden, using vivid, forceful prose that transforms his reflections on nature into richly...
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This set of timeless essays from the quintessential American shares his valuable philosophies on nature, solitude, slavery, religion, politics, fulfilling work, civil responsibilities, and more. WALDEN, Thoreau's beloved and well-known reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, looks at how the outside world can benefit from renouncing a materialistic way of life.
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"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year" Robert N. Hudspeth is Research Professor of English at the Claremont Graduate University and professor emeritus of English at the University of Redlands. He is the editor of The Letters of Margaret Fuller and the author of Ellery Channing. Elizabeth Hall Witherell is Editor-in-Chief of The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau. Lihong Xie is Associate Textual Editor of The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau.
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014" Robert N. Hudspeth is Research Professor of English at the Claremont Graduate University and professor emeritus of English at Redlands University. He is the editor of The Letters of Margaret Fuller and the author of Ellery Channing.
This is the inaugural volume in the first full-scale scholarly edition of Thoreau's correspondence in more than half a century. When completed, the edition's three...
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Editor Harrison Gray Otis Blake was a disciple of Emerson and Thoreau. In 1888 he approached Thoreau's writings in a unique way, assembling journal entries from different years, but all about the same season. The resulting composite portrait gives us Thoreau's thoughts on nature, plain living, and everyday life, including his perambulations by skate and snowshoe.
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A compelling travel narrative and a meditation on loss, time, and history, A Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers was written three years after the death of Thoreau's brother, John, with whom he made the 1839 river voyage. This account of their journey shares many themes with Thoreau's classic Walden, exploring self-renewal in nature, spirituality, culture, politics, and religion.
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"This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore. I go and come with a strange liberty in Nature, a part of herself."
Thoreau lived in his Walden camp but two years, 1845-1847, and, as his narrative clearly shows, by no means exiled himself from home and companions. His hermitage was within easy walking distance of Concord, and, though his seclusion meant privacy at times, he was by no means debarred...
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During his two-year residence at Walden Pond, Henry David Thoreau became keenly aware of the natural world that surrounded him. Entries from his journals reflect his soulful, in-depth observations of local wildlife, and his remarks on birds are particularly plentiful and poetic. This book, originally published as Notes on New England Birds in 1910 and edited and arranged by Francis H. Allen, collects Thoreau's thoughts on the various bird species...
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"Night and Moonlight" is an 1863 essay by American essayist Henry David Thoreau that explores the moon and its place in literary tradition. Henry David Thoreau (1817—1862) was an American poet, philosopher, and essayist most famous for his book "Walden" and his essay "Civil Disobedience", which advocated disobedience against unjust governments and influenced such notable figures as Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, and Martin Luther King Jr. His corpus...
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One of America's most celebrated naturalists, Thoreau often chose nature over human companionship for comfort. Early Spring in Massachusetts is one of four seasonal volumes culled from his journals and captures the season with Thoreau's keen eye and appreciation for his surroundings.
38) Lob der Wildnis
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Henry David Thoreau in neuer Übesetzung
»Der Wert dieser wilden Früchte liegt nicht in ihrem Besitz oder Verzehr, sondern in ihrem Anblick und der Freude, dieman an ihnen hat.« - Henry David Thoreau. Esther Kinsky hat aus den nach gelassenen Schriften einen Gang durch die Jahreszeiten zusammengestellt - und entdeckt in ihrer Übersetzung einen Thoreau, wie er für den deutschen Leser so noch nie zu lesen war: schlicht und klar, begeistert und...
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Thoreau's classic account of the solitary life, describing his attempts to simplify his life and sort out his priorities by living alone in a cabin beside Walden Pond for nearly two years, is one of the most influential books ever written. The bible of the environmental movement, Walden vividly portrays Thoreau's reverence for nature and his understanding of the idea that nature is made up of crucially interrelated parts.
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Posthumously published in 1866, and edited by biographer Henry S. Salt, this volume brings together the great American philosopher's passionate abolitionist lectures and writings, including "Civil Disobedience," "A Plea for Captain John Brown," "The Last Days of John Brown," "Paradise (to be) Regained," and "Life without Principle."