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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... leaves and grass were dried , and it came out a mild afternoon , as serene and fresh as if nature were maturing some greater scheme of her own . After this long dripping and oozing from every pore , she began to respire again more ...
... leaves and grass were dried , and it came out a mild afternoon , as serene and fresh as if nature were maturing some greater scheme of her own . After this long dripping and oozing from every pore , she began to respire again more ...
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... leaves of the grape , and wished that we could inform one of our friends behind of the locality of this somewhat rare and inaccessible flower before it was too late to pluck it ; but we were just gliding out of sight of the village ...
... leaves of the grape , and wished that we could inform one of our friends behind of the locality of this somewhat rare and inaccessible flower before it was too late to pluck it ; but we were just gliding out of sight of the village ...
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... leaves against the night . When we had pitched our tent on the hill - side , a few rods from the shore , we sat looking through its triangular door in the twilight at our lonely mast on the shore , just seen above the alders , and ...
... leaves against the night . When we had pitched our tent on the hill - side , a few rods from the shore , we sat looking through its triangular door in the twilight at our lonely mast on the shore , just seen above the alders , and ...
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... leaf which is wafted gently from its twig to the water without turning over , seemed still in their element , and to have very delicately availed them- selves of the natural laws . Their floating there was a beautiful and suc- cessful ...
... leaf which is wafted gently from its twig to the water without turning over , seemed still in their element , and to have very delicately availed them- selves of the natural laws . Their floating there was a beautiful and suc- cessful ...
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