Henry David Thoreau - Böcker

Ett av den amerikanska litteraturens mest omistliga verk i ny utgåva »I en enda bok överträffar Thoreau allt vi har haft i Amerika.« Robert Frost År 1845 flyttar den tjugoåttaåriga Harvardstudenten Henry David Thoreau till en egenhändigt byggd stu...

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"' År 1845 byggde sig Thoreau en stuga vid tjärnen Walden nära Concord i Massachusetts. Han levde där nära naturen i över två år och hade under tiden få kontakter med civilisationen. Skildringen av det enkla och oberoende livet i skogarna är ett g...

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Konsten att vandra och andra essäer samlar några av Henry David Thoreau s mest inflytelserika texter, där läsaren får möta honom som ekolog, politisk filosof och poet.¿ Thoreau, en av Amerikas mest ikoniska tänkare, utforskar här en skarp civilisa...

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Henry David Thoreau is considered one of the leading figures in early American literature, and Walden is without doubt his most influential book. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics wi...

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BENJAMIN MARKOVITS In 1845 Thoreau, a Harvard-educated 28-year-old, went to live by himself in the woods in Massachusetts. He stayed for over two years, living self-sufficiently in a small cabin built with his own hands. Wa...

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"Om en man vandrar i skogarna halva dagarna för kärlek till dem och för att på lite avstånd betrakta sina medmänniskor med opartiskt öga, uppfattas han som en dagdrivare; men om han tillbringar hela dagen som spekulant och låter hugga ned skogarna...

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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) anfäktar i denna gamla stridsskrift individens rätt att göra uppror mot massans totala brist på civilt kurage. I Thoreaus tid och rum rörde det sig om slaveri och det då pågående amerikanska anfallskriget mot Mexiko...

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Ett av den amerikanska litteraturens mest omistliga verk i ny utgåva »I en enda bok överträffar Thoreau allt vi har haft i Amerika.« Robert Frost År 1845 flyttar den tjugoåttaåriga Harvardstudenten Henry David Thoreau till en egenhändigt byggd stu...

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Thoreau has inspired generations of readers to think for themselves and to find meaning and beauty in nature. This sampling includes five of his most frequently read and cited essays: "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" (1849), "Life without Princ...

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One of the great books of American letters and a masterpiece of reflective philosophizing. Accounts of Thoreau's daily life on the shores of Walden Pond outside Concord, Massachusetts, are interwoven with musings on the virtues of self-reliance an...

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A beautiful illustrated edition of Thoreau's classic treatise on man and nature. "Our life is frittered away by detail. . . . Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!" Henry David Thoreau built his small cabin on the shore of Walden Pond in 1845. For t...

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The ultimate gift edition of Walden for bibliophiles, aficionados, and scholars ¿ "Replaces all other available editions of Walden as the most attractive and reliable way to approach this great American book."-Joel Porte, author of Consciousness a...

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`The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation' In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his home town of Concord, Massachusetts to begin a new life alone, in a rough hut he built himself a mile and a half away on the north-west shore of Walden Pond. Wa...

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Henry David Thoreau's vision of personal freedom is indelibly etched on the American consciousness. 'We need the tonic of wildness,' Thoreau wrote in Walden, and by turning his back on town amenities to build a house on Walden Pond in 1845, he hel...

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Penned by American philosopher and transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience examines the role of the individual's conscience in governmental rule. Thoreau argues that individual citizens must not simply be subject t...

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Disdainful of America's booming commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thoreau left Concord, Massachusetts, in 1845 to live in solitude in the woods near Walden Pond. Walden, the account of his stay, conveys at once a naturalist's wonder at ...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics."e;I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and...

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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 wh...

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`The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation' In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his home town of Concord, Massachusetts to begin a new life alone, in a rough hut he built himself a mile and a half away on the north-west shore of Walden Pond. Wa...

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`The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation' In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his home town of Concord, Massachusetts to begin a new life alone, in a rough hut he built himself a mile and a half away on the north-west shore of Walden Pond. Wa...

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