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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... land known as Wy- man's 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 ...
... land known as Wy- man's 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 ...
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... land- scape , as Thoreau depicts it in A Week , is covered with such ruins of community . His accounts of them remind us of the " Former Inhabitants " chapter of Walden , where Thoreau makes his way nostalgically through the cellar ...
... land- scape , as Thoreau depicts it in A Week , is covered with such ruins of community . His accounts of them remind us of the " Former Inhabitants " chapter of Walden , where Thoreau makes his way nostalgically through the cellar ...
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... land , such as the early navigators described , and that the loss of many odoriferous native plants , sweet - scented grasses and medicinal herbs , which formerly sweetened the atmos- phere , and rendered it salubrious , -by the grazing ...
... land , such as the early navigators described , and that the loss of many odoriferous native plants , sweet - scented grasses and medicinal herbs , which formerly sweetened the atmos- phere , and rendered it salubrious , -by the grazing ...
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... land , but he radically foreshortens the sense of its du- ration by briefly describing rather than dramatizing it . ( His account of the brothers ' ascension of Mount Agiocochook , in the White Mountains , is particularly brief and ...
... land , but he radically foreshortens the sense of its du- ration by briefly describing rather than dramatizing it . ( His account of the brothers ' ascension of Mount Agiocochook , in the White Mountains , is particularly brief and ...
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