A Week on the Concord and Merrimack RiversCosimo, Inc., 01/01/2009 - 268 páginas Hero to environmentalists and ecologists, and a profound thinker on humanity's happiness, Henry David Thoreau was one of the strongest shapers of the American character in the 19th century. This 1849 book, written while Thoreau was living at Walden Pond, is ostensibly a travel book, written to commemorate an 1839 river journey he took with his brother, John, from Massachusetts to New Hampshire. But the trip is only the framework upon which Thoreau hangs some of his most provocative thoughts on poetry, history, religion, dreams, and the passing of a slower way of life with the advent of the Industrial Revolution, the evidence of which he witnessed from the rivers. While not Thoreau's best-known work, *A Week* may be his most important, a beautifully determined attempt to understand the past and reconcile it with the future that continues to move readers today. Writer and philosopher HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-1862) was born in Concord, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard University. His writings on human nature, materialism, and the natural world rank him among the most influential thinkers of American literature. |
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... fruit . As naturally as the oak bears an acorn , and the vine a gourd , man bears a poem , either spoken or done . It is the chief and most memorable success , for history is but a prose narrative of poetic deeds . What else have the ...
... fruit . As naturally as the oak bears an acorn , and the vine a gourd , man bears a poem , either spoken or done . It is the chief and most memorable success , for history is but a prose narrative of poetic deeds . What else have the ...
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... fruit in its season , purple , red , white , and other grapes . Still further from the stream , on the edge of the firm land ; are seen the gray and white dwellings of the inhabitants . According to the valuation of 1831 , there were in ...
... fruit in its season , purple , red , white , and other grapes . Still further from the stream , on the edge of the firm land ; are seen the gray and white dwellings of the inhabitants . According to the valuation of 1831 , there were in ...
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... fruit of the naturalist's observations is not in new genera or species , but in new contemplations still , and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation . The seeds of the life of fishes are everywhere dissem- inated ...
... fruit of the naturalist's observations is not in new genera or species , but in new contemplations still , and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation . The seeds of the life of fishes are everywhere dissem- inated ...
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Henry David Thoreau. century , their happiness a regular fruit of the summer . The fresh - water Sun Fish , Bream , or Ruff , Pomotis vulgaris , as it were , without ancestry , without posterity , still represents the Fresh Water Sun ...
Henry David Thoreau. century , their happiness a regular fruit of the summer . The fresh - water Sun Fish , Bream , or Ruff , Pomotis vulgaris , as it were , without ancestry , without posterity , still represents the Fresh Water Sun ...
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... fruit trees are in blossom . Why should not our whole life and its scenery be actually thus fair and distinct ? All our lives want a suitable background . They should at least , like the life of the anchorite , be as impressive to ...
... fruit trees are in blossom . Why should not our whole life and its scenery be actually thus fair and distinct ? All our lives want a suitable background . They should at least , like the life of the anchorite , be as impressive to ...
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