A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers ; Walden, or, Life in the woods ; The Maine woods ; Cape Cod / Henry David Thoreau.

A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers ; Walden, or, Life in the woods ; The Maine woods ; Cape Cod / Henry David Thoreau.

Prose works. Selections

Week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers.
Walden.
Maine woods.
Cape Cod.

0940450275 (alk. paper)

New York, N.Y. : Literary Classics of the United States, [1985]

New York, N.Y. : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press

©1985

English

1,114 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

PS3042 1985

818/.308

Henry David Thoreau wrote four full-length works, collected here in a single volume. Interweaving natural observation, personal experience, and historical lore, they reveal his brilliance not only as a writer, but as a naturalist, scholar, historian, poet, and philosopher. "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" is based on a boat trip taken with his brother from Concord, Massachusetts to Concord, New Hampshire. "Walden" is at once a personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, manual of self-reliance, and masterpiece of style. "The Maine Woods" and "Cape Cod" portray landscapes changing irreversibly even as he wrote. The first combines close observation of the unexplored Maine wilderness with a far-sighted plea for conservation; the second is a brilliant and unsentimental account of survival on a barren peninsula in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 1071-1094.

Library of America ; 28.

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