Selected Writings (Crofts Classics) - Hardcover

Henry David Thoreau

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0882950991 ISBN 13: 9780882950990

Publisher: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1988

Synopsis

The complete text of "Civil Disobedience," "Life without Principle," "My Prayer," the major parts of Walden, and some extracts from his journals. Edited by Lewis Leary, this volume also contains an excellent introduction, a list of principal dates in the life of Thoreau, and a selected bibliography.

About this title

About the Author:

Henry David Thoreau was an American author, poet, and philosopher, who is best known for his works Waldena treatise about living in concert with the natural worldand Civil Disobedience, in which he espoused the need to morally resist the actions of an unjust state. Thoreau s work heavily reflects the ideologies of the American transcendentalists, and he has long been considered a leading figure in the movement along with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bronson Alcott, and, at first, Nathaniel Hawthorne (who changed his views later in life). In addition to his writing, which totaled more than twenty volumes, Thoreau was an active abolitionist, and lectured regularly against the Fugitive Slave Law. Thoreau died in 1862, and is buried along with Louisa May Alcott, Ellery Channing, and other notable Americans in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts.

About this edition

• Publisher: Appleton-Century-Crofts
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0882950991
• ISBN 13: 9780882950990
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 148
• Editor: Lewis Leary