The Essays of Henry David Thoreau (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
464
Utgivningsdatum
2025-10-30
Förlag
Milkweed Editions
Medarbetare
Hyde, Lewis (red.)
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Illustrations
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1
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9781639551477

The Essays of Henry David Thoreau

av Henry David Thoreau, Lewis Hyde
Häftad,  Engelska, 2025-10-30
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A definitive collection of Henry David Thoreaus major essays, annotated and introduced by Lewis Hyde. Diverging from the long-standing custom of separating Thoreaus politics from his interest in nature, renowned author Lewis Hyde brings together essays that highlight the ways in which these two strands of thought were intertwined. Here, natural history begins not with fish and birds, but with a dismissal of the political world, and condemnation of slavery concludes with a meditation on the water lilies blooming on the Concord River. This definitive edition includes Thoreaus most famous essays, Civil Disobedience and Walking, along with lesser-known masterpieces such as Wild Apples, The Last Days of John Brown, and an account of Thoreaus 1846 journey into the Maine wilderness to climb Mount Katahdinan essay that ends on a unique note of sublimity and terror in the face of raw nature. While Thoreaus ideal reader was expected to be politically engaged in current affairs and well versed in Greek, Latin, poetry, and travel narrative, Hydes inviting annotations clarify many of Thoreaus references and recreate the contemporary context of the day, when the nations westward expansion was bringing to a head the racial tensions that would result in the Civil War. Hyde deems Thoreaus writing prophetic because the prophet speaks of things that will be true in the future because they are true in all time. Thoreaus revelatory writing coupled with the luminous insights from Hydeone of our countrys greatest public thinkers (Lawrence Weschler)make The Essays of Henry David Thoreau essential reading at a moment in our nations history when his subversiveness, foresight, and lyricism are badly needed.
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Praise for The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau Hydes volume is a well-chosen, handsome collection of essays with a splendid introduction. Everyone will want to use itits a real contribution.Robert D. Richardson, author of Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind This thoughtfully edited gathering of Thoreaus essays will surely be of great interest both to Thoreauvians and to readers approaching his work for the first time.Lawrence Buell, Harvard University Astonishing that so many pages of such great writing (and such wonderful, interesting annotations) can be purchased for so little money. We have needed an inexpensive annotated edition of Thoreaus best short prose for a very long time, and this clearly fits the bill. Teachers and students, in particular, will find this book extraordinarily useful. The Thoreau material and annotations alone are extraordinarily valuable, but Hydes excellent introduction on Thoreaus Prophetic Excursions make this the best deal available for a Thoreau book. Buy it; youll be glad you did!Bradley Dean, editor of Thoreaus Wild Fruits and Faith in a Seed Praise for Lewis Hyde Lewis Hyde is a national treasure, one of our true superstars of nonfiction.David Foster Wallace One of our countrys greatest public thinkers.Lawrence Weschler

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Henry David Thoreau is one of the most widely recognized names in American letters. Born in 1817, he wrote extensively on naturalism, transcendentalism, philosophy, global and American politics, and abolition. He is best known for is the author of Walden, a seminal text on living simply in a natural environment, and Civil Disobedience, an essay arguing for the individual right to resist a morally unjust state. He died in 1862. Lewis Hyde is a poet, essayist, translator, and cultural critic. A MacArthur Fellow and renown author, his previous books include The Gift, Trickster Makes This World, and A Primer for Forgetting. Hyde is a trustee of MacDowell and a founding director of Creative Capital. He was previously the director of undergraduate creative writing at Harvard University and taught writing and American literature for many years at Kenyon College. Now retired, he and his wife, the writer Patricia Vigderman, live in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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