Description
| Product ID: | 9780143106500 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | The Portable Thoreau |
| Authors: | Author: Henry Thoreau |
| Page Count: | 656 |
| Subjects: | Poetry by individual poets, Poetry by individual poets, Biography and non-fiction prose, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Prose: non-fiction, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Self-described as 'a mystic, a transcendentalist, and a natural philosopher to boot', Henry David Thoreau dedicated his life to preserving his freedom as a man and as an artist. This edition is suitable for those interested in discovering the great thinker's influential ideas about everything from environmentalism to limited government. Self-described as ''a mystic, a transcendentalist, and a natural philosopher to boot'', Henry David Thoreau dedicated his life to preserving his freedom as a man and as an artist. Nature was the fountainhead of his inspiration and his refuge from what he considered the follies of society. Heedless of his friends'' advice to live in a more orthodox manner, he determinedly pursued his own inner bent - that of a poet-philosopher - in prose and verse, in his masterpiece Walden, from which this work is taken. Edited by noted Thoreau scholar Jeffrey S. Cramer, this edition is the new standard for those interested in discovering the great thinker''s influential ideas about everything from environmentalism to limited government. |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2012-09-06 |