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Walden and Other Writings
by Thoreau, Henry David
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good Dust Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0679600043
- ISBN 13
- 9780679600046
- Seller
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Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Modern Library, 1992. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 769 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Very good dust jacket.
Synopsis
Henry David Thoreau was born July 12, 1817 - "just in the nick of time," as he wrote, for the "flowering of New England," when the area boasted such eminent citizens as Emerson, Hawthorne, Whitman and Melville. Raised in genteel poverty - his father made and sold pencils from their home - Thoreau enjoyed, nevertheless, a fine education, graduating from Harvard in 1837. In that year, the young thinker met Emerson and formed the close friendship that became the most significant of his life. Guided, sponsored and aided by his famous older colleague, Thoreau began to publish essays in The Dial, exhibiting the radical originality that would gain the disdain of his contemporaries but the great admiration of all succeeding generations. In 1845, Thoreau began the living experiment for which he is most famous. During his two years and two months in the shack beside the New England pond, he wrote his first important work, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), was arrested for refusing to pay his poll tax to a government that supported slavery (recorded in "Civil Disobedience") and gathered the material for his masterpiece, Walden (1854). He spent the rest of his life writing and lecturing and died, relatively unappreciated, in 1862.
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- Bookseller
- Montana Book Company
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 088000
- Title
- Walden and Other Writings
- Author
- Thoreau, Henry David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0679600043
- ISBN 13
- 9780679600046
- Publisher
- Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1992
- Pages
- 769
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Keywords
- ESSAYS NATURE WRITING THOREAU, HENRY DAVID LITERATURE
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Montana Book Company
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Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
About Montana Book Company
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