Walden and Civil Disobedience (Riverside editions)
by Henry David Thoreau
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Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 818.3
EAN: 9780395051139
ISBN: 0395051134
Label: Houghton Mifflin Company
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: 1960-06
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Studio: Houghton Mifflin Company
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Summary: A Classic Must
Comment: Well Walden and Civil Dis. are both amazing essays and in that matter books. The fact that they have said so much and the genius that Thoreau remains to be is absolute. As E. B. White said if anyone attempted to recapture the way that Thoreau writes it would be impossible, the book would be torn and burned. His truth on simplicity is something that I myself and all should take into concept especially in these troubled times. I have read both works many times and continue to learn something new every single time. Absolute praise to Walden especially. I have personally learned that schools actually have it required to read "Where I lived and What I lived for." However difficult the message is for anyone the fact that it is taught in schools puts it up on the scale for anyone. To put up an argument against this book is tough because it will be rebuked again and again unless you write an entire book trying to show these things wrong ( Moby-Dick ). Well anyway this is a must, I have read absolute tons of books and I have still found Walden still of my absolute favorites. So get this, it's amazing.
Customer Rating:
Summary: ¡Excelente, Excellent!
Comment: This book was delivered in excellent conditions, it was a brand new book and it arrived faster than I expected!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Book cover commercialization?
Comment: A previous reviewer asked what Thoreau might think of how society has developed commercially since he wrote this book. I have to also wonder what he would think of the ridiculous (in my opinion) and jingoistic cover of this current edition? The person who chose the cover design should have read the book. The cover is offensive, given the ideas the book contains. Penguin should be ashamed.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Amazon Purchases August 9, 2007
Comment: This is a classic novel. It's value as literature speaks for itself.
I received the product in the condition advertised, in two days.
I am completely satisfied with the purchase and service.
Customer Rating:
Summary: He heard a different drummer- The sun is but a morning star
Comment: Thoreau is more than simply a writer who produced a great American classic. He exemplified the idea which perhaps as much as any other has come to be at the heart of the American creed. "If a man does not keep pace to his companion, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
Throreau when he went into the woods of Walden Pond on July 4, 1845 , a journey in solitude which would last just two years and two months, was the archetypal American individualist. He was the man 'doing his own thing' living in accordance with what only he could know was right for himself. This idea of 'radical individualism' has become part of the American common faith. Its abuses are legion and may be disastrous, but it also has brought about not simply 'better mousetraps' but a whole vast world of innovations and innovators, the like of which Mankind has never known before.
Thoreau as he writes in his introduction went to the woods to explore not simply the natural world, the outdoors he so much loved. He went to the woods to truly go more deeply into and know himself. As he says in his introduction:
" I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience. Moreover, I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what he has heard of other men's lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sincerely, it must have been in a distant land to me."
Thoreau in that enigmatic, epigrammatic aphoristic style, he shared with his great mentor and fellow pioneering poet- philosopher, Emerson connects the world within with the world without , connects the Concord woods with the Cosmos . He creates a work in 'Walden' of singular beauty and of its own special economy and principles in thought.
Thoreau was too an abolitionist, an opponent of the Mexican war, a civil disobedient who refused to pay the poll tax-, a pioneer
whose followers would include Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
But in his close looking at the world of nature and the world of himself he was first a great explorer of life and reality going out alone in his own way- however geographically close he may have been to home.
His words and his wisdom waken us even today to the hope of new and better worlds i.e. he also embodied the spirit of a great American optimism.
The great individual teaches us even in dark hours to find new worlds in ourselves outside our own darknesses. " There are new worlds yet to be born" he writes, " The sun is but a morning star"
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Editorial Reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: A Classic Must
Comment: Well Walden and Civil Dis. are both amazing essays and in that matter books. The fact that they have said so much and the genius that Thoreau remains to be is absolute. As E. B. White said if anyone attempted to recapture the way that Thoreau writes it would be impossible, the book would be torn and burned. His truth on simplicity is something that I myself and all should take into concept especially in these troubled times. I have read both works many times and continue to learn something new every single time. Absolute praise to Walden especially. I have personally learned that schools actually have it required to read "Where I lived and What I lived for." However difficult the message is for anyone the fact that it is taught in schools puts it up on the scale for anyone. To put up an argument against this book is tough because it will be rebuked again and again unless you write an entire book trying to show these things wrong ( Moby-Dick ). Well anyway this is a must, I have read absolute tons of books and I have still found Walden still of my absolute favorites. So get this, it's amazing.
Customer Rating:
Summary: ¡Excelente, Excellent!
Comment: This book was delivered in excellent conditions, it was a brand new book and it arrived faster than I expected!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Book cover commercialization?
Comment: A previous reviewer asked what Thoreau might think of how society has developed commercially since he wrote this book. I have to also wonder what he would think of the ridiculous (in my opinion) and jingoistic cover of this current edition? The person who chose the cover design should have read the book. The cover is offensive, given the ideas the book contains. Penguin should be ashamed.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Amazon Purchases August 9, 2007
Comment: This is a classic novel. It's value as literature speaks for itself.
I received the product in the condition advertised, in two days.
I am completely satisfied with the purchase and service.
Customer Rating:
Summary: He heard a different drummer- The sun is but a morning star
Comment: Thoreau is more than simply a writer who produced a great American classic. He exemplified the idea which perhaps as much as any other has come to be at the heart of the American creed. "If a man does not keep pace to his companion, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
Throreau when he went into the woods of Walden Pond on July 4, 1845 , a journey in solitude which would last just two years and two months, was the archetypal American individualist. He was the man 'doing his own thing' living in accordance with what only he could know was right for himself. This idea of 'radical individualism' has become part of the American common faith. Its abuses are legion and may be disastrous, but it also has brought about not simply 'better mousetraps' but a whole vast world of innovations and innovators, the like of which Mankind has never known before.
Thoreau as he writes in his introduction went to the woods to explore not simply the natural world, the outdoors he so much loved. He went to the woods to truly go more deeply into and know himself. As he says in his introduction:
" I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience. Moreover, I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what he has heard of other men's lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sincerely, it must have been in a distant land to me."
Thoreau in that enigmatic, epigrammatic aphoristic style, he shared with his great mentor and fellow pioneering poet- philosopher, Emerson connects the world within with the world without , connects the Concord woods with the Cosmos . He creates a work in 'Walden' of singular beauty and of its own special economy and principles in thought.
Thoreau was too an abolitionist, an opponent of the Mexican war, a civil disobedient who refused to pay the poll tax-, a pioneer
whose followers would include Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
But in his close looking at the world of nature and the world of himself he was first a great explorer of life and reality going out alone in his own way- however geographically close he may have been to home.
His words and his wisdom waken us even today to the hope of new and better worlds i.e. he also embodied the spirit of a great American optimism.
The great individual teaches us even in dark hours to find new worlds in ourselves outside our own darknesses. " There are new worlds yet to be born" he writes, " The sun is but a morning star"
Thoreau's classic essays on the virtues of self-reliance and individual freedom have had relevance for every generation for more than a century. They remain high on required reading lists for students across the country.
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