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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... writing from time to time to ask what disposition should be made of the copies of " A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers " still on hand , and at last suggesting that he had use for the room they occupied in his cellar . So I had ...
... writing from time to time to ask what disposition should be made of the copies of " A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers " still on hand , and at last suggesting that he had use for the room they occupied in his cellar . So I had ...
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... write because Henry D. Thoreau has a book to print . Henry D. Thoreau is a great man in Concord , a man of original ... writer's deepest lit- erary ambitions . Emerson's support of Thoreau's big project - A Week is the longest of any of ...
... write because Henry D. Thoreau has a book to print . Henry D. Thoreau is a great man in Concord , a man of original ... writer's deepest lit- erary ambitions . Emerson's support of Thoreau's big project - A Week is the longest of any of ...
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... write a book , and his reference in Walden to the " private business " he transacted there certainly refers in part to the composition of A Week . Here at the Pond Thoreau wrote two major drafts of his book , weaving together materials ...
... write a book , and his reference in Walden to the " private business " he transacted there certainly refers in part to the composition of A Week . Here at the Pond Thoreau wrote two major drafts of his book , weaving together materials ...
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... write his book . But there was another book in progress at Walden Pond as well , the one that took its title from the Pond and recorded the experiences of living there . Though Walden ultimately was pub- lished five years later than A ...
... write his book . But there was another book in progress at Walden Pond as well , the one that took its title from the Pond and recorded the experiences of living there . Though Walden ultimately was pub- lished five years later than A ...
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... writing it , as it hap- pened , that I used any phrases implying that I lived in a house , or lead a domestic life ... writes in the book's introductory chapter , " Concord River , " " must have been the guides which conducted the ...
... writing it , as it hap- pened , that I used any phrases implying that I lived in a house , or lead a domestic life ... writes in the book's introductory chapter , " Concord River , " " must have been the guides which conducted the ...
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Anacreon ancient bank beauty Billerica boat called Chaucer Chelmsford clouds Concord and Merrimack Concord River Confucius distant dreams Dunstable earth England English eyes falls feet fishes floating flowers Friend Friendship genius Giles Fletcher grass ground Haverhill hear heard heavens Henry David Thoreau hills Hooksett imagination Indians inhabitants island land length light lines lives look man's meadows Mencius Merrimack Rivers miles morning mountains Nashua nature neighbors never night noon Ossian passage passed Pawtucket Falls Penacook perchance phrase pine poem poet poetry extract Pythagoras quoted Robin Hood rocks rustling sail Salmon Brook sand seemed seen sense serene shore side silent sometimes sound speak stand stars stones stream summer things Thoreau found Thoreau indicates thou thought town translated trees true truth Tyngsborough verse voyage Walden Week wild wind woods Zoroaster