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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 ...

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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 Collectors Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics wit...

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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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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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"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 sko...

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Civil Disobedience argues that citizens should not permit their governments to overrule their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing their acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice. Thoreau was mo...

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These two pieces are an account of Thoreau's two-year stay at Walden Pond near Concord in Massachusetts. The first piece concerns the developing and testing of his transcendental philosophy of personal freedom, individuality, self reliance and mat...

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Meditations on human existence, society, government and other topics.

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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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In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World is a vintage classic that pairs passages by writer Henry David Thoreau with images by photographer Eliot Porter. Ahead of its time, this bestsellingand long-out-of-printclassic monograph was first publi...

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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 Conscio...

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In 1845 Henry David Thoreau, disdainful of America's growing commercialism and industrialism, left his home town of Concord, Massachusetts to begin a new life alone, in a rough hut on the north-west shore of Walden Pond. Walden is Thoreau's classi...

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Philosopher, naturalist and rugged individualist, Thoreau has inspired generations of readers to think for themselves and to find meaning and beauty in nature. This representative sampling includes five of his most frequently read and cited essays...

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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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This 1862 essay, a meditation on the joy of walking and its necessity as a remedy for stress, has become one of the most influential works of the modern environmentalist movement.

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Walden by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau"s life for two years, two months, and two days around the shores of Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his fr...

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Even a cursory reading of Henry David Thoreau's immortal essay about civil disobedience reveals echoes in contemporary discussions of individual rights and the limits of government in a free society. Its themes resonate into the 21st century. Face...

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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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The ideal book of portable wisdom from America's quintessential nature writer. Thoreau's celebrated essay shows how anyone can more fully appreciate nature's wonders by "sauntering" in tranquillity with senses wide open.

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With Abnaki guides, Thoreau climbed Mt. Katahdin and hiked deep into the Maine woods to places where one "might live and die and never hear of the United States". His accurate, evocative descriptions still reflect his belief that man him...

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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. Wal...

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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. Wal...

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"Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each." Modernity rules our lives by clock and calendar, dividing the stream of time into units and coordinating...

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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 and Cu...

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The Maine Woods, Thoreaus best-known book after Walden, is now available for the first time in a lavishly produced, fully annotated gift-book edition On the 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Main...

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

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The Maine Woods, Thoreau’s best-known book after Walden, is now available for the first time in a lavishly produced, fully annotated gift-book edition “On the 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the bac...

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This new selection of Thoreau's essays traces his trajectory as a writer for the outlets of his day-the periodical press, newspapers, and compendiums-and as a frequent presenter on the local lecture circuit. By arranging the writings chronological...

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A treasure trove of Thoreau’s most noteworthy essays, with plentiful annotations by leading Thoreau scholar Jeffrey S. CramerThis new selection of Thoreau’s essays traces his trajectory as a writer for the outlets of his day—the ...

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