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The Portable Thoreau (Portable Library)

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by: Henry David Thoreau See Larger Image List Price: $18.00 Amazon.com's Price: $12.24 You Save: $5.76 (32%) as of 11/23/2009 00:15 EST Used Price: $3.79 Collectible Price: $28.00 Third Party New Price: $9.50 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 818.309 EAN: 9780140150315 Edition: Revised ISBN: 0140150315 Label: Penguin Books Manufacturer: Penguin Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 698 Publication Date: January 01, 1964 Publisher: Penguin Books Studio: Penguin Books Features: ISBN13: 9780140150315 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Click here to view our Condition Guide and Shipping Prices Related Items: The Portable Emerson (Viking Portable Library) The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Modern Library Classics) The Portable Walt Whitman (Penguin Classics) Leisure: The Basis of Culture The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics) see more Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: INCLUDES 'WALDEN' COMPLETE; SELECTIONSFROM 'A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS' 'THE MAINE WOODS' AND THE 'JOURNAL'; EIGHTEEN POEMS AND SIXTEEN ESSAYS. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - GOT MORE THAN EXPECTED Really just wanted to turn back time to when I read Civil Disobedience and Waldens Pond back in high school. Wound up getting a wonderful anthology of Thoreau that has taken a prominent place in my life again. The "portable" part should come with a disclaimer; I can barely cram it into my coat pocket and it lQQks rather odd tucked into my waistband. He still makes so much sense, and yet, the mainstream folks will never buy into his straight forward sensibility. He threatens their power structure ... Read More Rating: - Nice Size This is a nice size copy. I'm glad it's larger than a normal paper back. 'makes reading Thoreau a more beautiful experience. Rating: - Just a taste This book is a collection of essays, poems, and chapters of books written by Thoreau. It includes: Essays: --Natural History of Massachusetts --A Winter Walk --Civil Disobedience --Walking --Life Without Principle --The Last Days of John Brown Book excerpts: --The Wilds of Penobscot (from The Maine Woods) --Life in the Wilderness (from The Main Woods) --Concord to Montreal (A Yankee in Canada, Excursions) --Selections ... Read More Rating: - great value Very nice collection of Thoreau's work. Perfect for anyone wanting to get better acquainted with Thoreau. Rating: - 'My life has been the poem I would have writ' This anthology contains Thoreau's major writings. First and above all 'Walden'. And then far far back the travelogue reflective work ' A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers', the famous essay on ' Civil Disobedience' which would be important for Gandhi and Martin Luther King, a scattering of his poems , 'The Maine Woods', ' A Winter Walk' ' A Yankee in Connecticut' and ' The Last Days of John Brown' As Carl Bode makes clear in his excellent introduction surveying the work and life of Thoreau ... Read More see more

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