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by: Henry David Thoreau
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 818.309
EAN: 9780140150315
ISBN: 0140150315
Label: Penguin Books
Manufacturer: Penguin Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 698
Publication Date: January 01, 1964
Publisher: Penguin Books
Sales Rank: 56971
Studio: Penguin Books
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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
Rating: - Must Read
This volume represents a collected works of Thoreau's writings, which a previous reviewer has done well to catalog. Every couple of years I find myself returning to this book to walk with Thoreau and attempt to rediscover my core values and love for pure writing and critical thinking. Thoreau invites his readers to shed the encumbrances of their lives, willingly brought upon themselves in the form of mortgages and jobs they cannot afford to abandon. In short, we become tools to our tools-that is, slaves to ... Read More
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