|
by: Henry David Thoreau
List Price: $10.95Amazon.com's Price: $8.76 You Save: $2.19 (20%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 818.303
EAN: 9780807014257
ISBN: 0807014257
Label: Beacon Press
Manufacturer: Beacon Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 312
Publication Date: July 15, 2004
Publisher: Beacon Press
Sales Rank: 186135
Studio: Beacon Press
Related Items:
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
On the 150th anniversary of its publication, a new edition of the nature classic
First published in 1854, Henry David Thoreau's groundbreaking book has influenced generations of readers and continues to inspire and inform anyone with an open mind and a love of nature. With Bill McKibben providing a newly revised Introduction and helpful annotations that place Thoreau firmly in his role as cultural and spiritual seer, this beautiful edition of Walden for the new millennium is more accessible and relevant than ever.
'[Thoreau] says so many pithy and brilliant things, and offers so many piquant, and, we may add, so many just, comments on society as it is, that this book is well worth the reading, both for its actual contents and its suggestive capacity.'
—A. P. Peabody, North American Review, 1854
'[Walden] still seems to me the best youth's companion yet written by an American, for it carries a solemn warning against the loss of one's valuables, it advances a good argument for traveling light and trying new adventures, it rings with the power of powerful adoration, it contains religious feeling without religious images, and it steadfastly refuses to record bad news.'
—E. B. White, Yale Review, 1954
'Bill McKibben gives us Thoreau's Walden as the gospel of the present moment.' —Robert D. Richardson, Jr., author of Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind
|
