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| Daily Observations: Thoreau on the Days of the Year
ISBN: 9781613760963
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Massachusetts Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Thoreau Henry David 1817–1862 -- Quotations; Quotations American; Literary calendars;
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book, wrote Henry David Thoreau in Walden. Today that book continues to provoke, inspire, and change lives all over the world, and each rereading is fresh and challenging. Yet as Thoreau's countless admirers know, there is more to the man than Walden. An engineer, poet, teacher, naturalist, lecturer, and political activist, he truly had multiple lives to lead, and each one speaks forcefully to us today.Sponsored by the Thoreau Society, the brief, handsomely presented books in this series offer the thoughts of a great writer on a variety of topics, some that we readily associate with him, some that may be surprising. Each volume includes selections from his familiar published works as well as from less well known lectures, letters, and journal entries. The books include original engravings by renowned illustrator and book artist Barry Moser.
Steve Grant is a journalist who writes on natural history and New England heritage topics for the Hartford Courant. |
