A Week on the Concord and Merrimack RiversPenguin, 01/12/1998 - 368 páginas Thoreau's account of his 1839 boat trip is a finely crafted tapestry of travel writing, essays, and lyrical poetry. Thoreau interweaves descriptions of natural phenomena, the rural landscape, and local characters with digressions on literature and philosophy, the Native American and Puritian histories of New England, the Bhagavad Gita, the imperfections of Christianity, and many other subjects. Although it shares many of the themes in Thoreau's classic Walden, A Week on the Concord offers an alternative perspective on his analaysis of the relationship between nature and culture. 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. |
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... banks , two white women and a boy , who had left an island at the mouth of the Contoocook before daybreak . " Thoreau ... bank . " Thoreau closes off the remembrance by returning to the past tense , evoking now the ( official ) voice of ...
... banks , two white women and a boy , who had left an island at the mouth of the Contoocook before daybreak . " Thoreau ... bank . " Thoreau closes off the remembrance by returning to the past tense , evoking now the ( official ) voice of ...
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... bank has been extended , and there is now but little boating on the Merri- mack . All kinds of produce and stores were formerly conveyed by water , but now nothing is carried up the stream . " He contin- ues , " The locks are fast ...
... bank has been extended , and there is now but little boating on the Merri- mack . All kinds of produce and stores were formerly conveyed by water , but now nothing is carried up the stream . " He contin- ues , " The locks are fast ...
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