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The Days of Henry Thoreau: A Biography
Walter Harding
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hardcover. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 536 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1142.
Henry David Thoreau is generally remembered as the author of Walden and "Civil Disobedience," a recluse of the woods and a political protester who once went to jail. To his contemporaries he was a minor disciple of Emerson; he has since joined the ranks of America's most respected and beloved writers. Few, however, really know the complexity of the man they revere--wanderer and scholar, naturalist and humorist, teacher and surveyor, abolitionist and poet, Transcendentalist and anthropologist, inventor and social critic, and, above all, individualist. In this widely acclaimed biography, the eminent Thoreau scholar Walter Harding presents all of these ... Read more
Henry David Thoreau is generally remembered as the author of Walden and "Civil Disobedience," a recluse of the woods and a political protester who once went to jail. To his contemporaries he was a minor disciple of Emerson; he has since joined the ranks of America's most respected and beloved writers. Few, however, really know the complexity of the man they revere--wanderer and scholar, naturalist and humorist, teacher and surveyor, abolitionist and poet, Transcendentalist and anthropologist, inventor and social critic, and, above all, individualist. In this widely acclaimed biography, the eminent Thoreau scholar Walter Harding presents all of these ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
536
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Number of Pages
536
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691653808
SKU
V9780691653808
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About Walter Harding
Walter Harding is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of American Literature at the State University of New York at Geneseo.
Reviews for The Days of Henry Thoreau: A Biography
"[T]he best biography we have had."
Carl Bode, The New York Times Book Review
Carl Bode, The New York Times Book Review