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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... 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 live at 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 live at the ...
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... shore ( rural villages , agricultural landscapes , and local charac- ters ) made in the present moment , which cause Thoreau to “ re- member " and reflect upon aspects of the region's past and its legends . One of the finest , and ...
... shore ( rural villages , agricultural landscapes , and local charac- ters ) made in the present moment , which cause Thoreau to “ re- member " and reflect upon aspects of the region's past and its legends . One of the finest , and ...
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... shores , Thoreau redeems them for his readers . This process of redemptive remembering involves cultures as well as individual ( Wordsworthian ) figures like the old brown- coated man . In particular , Thoreau's voyage carries him by ...
... shores , Thoreau redeems them for his readers . This process of redemptive remembering involves cultures as well as individual ( Wordsworthian ) figures like the old brown- coated man . In particular , Thoreau's voyage carries him by ...
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... shore farmers , who tell him " that thousands of acres are flooded now , since the dams have been erected , where they remember to have seen the white honeysuckle or clover growing once , and they could go dry with shoes only in summer ...
... shore farmers , who tell him " that thousands of acres are flooded now , since the dams have been erected , where they remember to have seen the white honeysuckle or clover growing once , and they could go dry with shoes only in summer ...
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... shore - such as the ruined village of Billerica and the flooded 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 ...
... shore - such as the ruined village of Billerica and the flooded 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 ...
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