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The Portable Thoreau

The Portable Thoreau - Paperback

by Henry David Thoreau
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (Introduction by), Jeffrey S. Cramer (Editor)Series:Penguin ClassicsAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2012-03-27Pages:656
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin GroupISBN-13:9780143106500ISBN-10:143106503UPC:9780143106500Book Category:Literary Collections, Poetry, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:American, PoliticalSize:7.77 x 5.08 x 1.13 inchesWeight:0.9304Product ID:SCWSQRGEVN
An updated edition of Thoreau's most widely read works

Self-described as "a mystic, a transcendentalist, and a natural philosopher to boot," Henry David Thoreau dedicated his life to preserving his freedom as a man and as an artist. Nature was the fountainhead of his inspiration and his refuge from what he considered the follies of society. Heedless of his friends' advice to live in a more orthodox manner, he determinedly pursued his own inner bent-that of a poet-philosopher-in prose and verse. Edited by noted Thoreau scholar Jeffrey S. Cramer, this edition promises to be the new standard for those interested in discovering the great thinker's influential ideas about everything from environmentalism to limited government.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin GroupISBN-13:9780143106500ISBN-10:143106503UPC:9780143106500Book Category:Literary Collections, Poetry, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:American, PoliticalSize:7.77 x 5.08 x 1.13 inchesWeight:0.9304Product ID:SCWSQRGEVN
Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1817. He graduated from Harvard in 1837, the same year he began his lifelong Journal. Inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thoreau became a key member of the Transcendentalist movement that included Margaret Fuller and Bronson Alcott. The Transcendentalists' faith in nature was tested by Thoreau between 1845 and 1847 when he lived for twenty-six months in a homemade hut at Walden Pond. While living at Walden, Thoreau worked on the two books published during his lifetime: Walden (1854) and A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849). Several of his other works, including The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, and Excursions, were published posthumously. Thoreau died in Concord, at the age of forty-four, in 1862.

Jeffrey S. Cramer is the Curator of Collections at the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods. He is the editor of the award-winning Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition, The Quotable Thoreau, among other books. He lives in Maynard, Massachusetts.
Publisher: Penguin Group

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Updated Edition

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Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (Introduction by), Jeffrey S. Cramer (Editor)

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Henry David Thoreau

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