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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... field on the shores of Walden Pond that Emerson pur- chased in 1844 became the site of Thoreau's hut and of the famous experiment in living that he conducted there between 1845 and 1847. One of the primary reasons that Thoreau went to ...
... field on the shores of Walden Pond that Emerson pur- chased in 1844 became the site of Thoreau's hut and of the famous experiment in living that he conducted there between 1845 and 1847. One of the primary reasons that Thoreau went to ...
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... fields & woods . that it is a hypaethral or unroofed book- lying open under the ether- & permeated by it . Open to all weathers - not easy to be kept on a shelf . [ June 29 , 1851 ] One aspect of A Week's openness is its adventuring ...
... fields & woods . that it is a hypaethral or unroofed book- lying open under the ether- & permeated by it . Open to all weathers - not easy to be kept on a shelf . [ June 29 , 1851 ] One aspect of A Week's openness is its adventuring ...
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... fields of Sudbury- suggest loss and discontinuity . But over the course of the voyage as a whole , such images are absorbed in , and redeemed by , the writer's historical imagination - providing a sense of continuity from past to ...
... fields of Sudbury- suggest loss and discontinuity . But over the course of the voyage as a whole , such images are absorbed in , and redeemed by , the writer's historical imagination - providing a sense of continuity from past to ...
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