Bøger af Henry David Thoreau

The American transcendental writer's best quotes, charting his classic themes of the self, nature and the passage of the seasons, presented here with a quote given for each day of the year.

Thoreau''s famous trip through the Maine Woods is reissued in this elegantly designed paperback edition to entertain, encourage, and inspire contemporary naturalists.

Henry David Thoreau: Über die Pflicht zum Ungehorsam gegen den StaatLesefreundlicher Großdruck in 16-pt-SchriftGroßformat, 210 x 297 mmBerliner Ausgabe, 2021, 2. AuflageDurchgesehener Neusatz bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Theodor BorkenOriginaltitel: »The Resistance to Civil Government«. In der ersten Werkausgabe wurde daraus »Civil Disobedience« und später »On the Duty of Civil Disobedience«. Diese Übersetzung von David Adner steht unter einer Creative Commons Namensnennung Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 3.0 Deutschland Lizenz.Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung des Bildes: Benjamin D. Maxham, Daguerreotype of Henry David Thoreau, 1856..Gesetzt aus der Minion Pro, 16 pt.Henricus - Edition Deutsche Klassik GmbH

WALDEN; OR, LIFE IN THE WOODSby Henry David ThoreauEDITION: Cactus Classics Large Print - 16 Point FontFONT: 16 point GaramondBOOK TRIM SIZE: 6" x 9" (15.2 cm x 22.9 cm)COVER: GlossyPAPER: CreamTABLE OF CONTENTS: YesCactus Classics Large Print (16 point size) editions are typeset with the Garamond font. These editions have a glossy cover, cream paper interior, wide margins, generous white space and good spacing between lines of text.ABOUT THE BOOK AND AUTHORWalden; or, Life in the Woods was written by transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) and was first published in 1854. In later editions, the title was shortened to Walden. It is Henry David Thoreau's best known work.In this book, Thoreau describes his experiences and reflections on simple living in natural surroundings. Thoreau stayed in a cabin at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts for two years, two months and two days. The book condenses this period into one year and uses the passage of four seasons to symbolize human development.Thoreau published many works over his life. Two of his best known works are "Walden; or, Life in the Woods" and "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience".Henry David Thoreau was a prolific writer. Some of his works are published under the Cactus Classics imprint of Cactus Publishing Inc.CACTUS CLASSICS LARGE PRINT BOOKS BY HENRY DAVID THOREAU ISBN: 9781773600369 - On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Cactus Classics Large Print) ISBN: 9781773600376 - Walden; or, Life in the Woods (Cactus Classics Large Print)We regularly add new Large Print Books to our collection.

Thoreau's classic account of his meditative, beach-combing walking trips to Cape Cod in the early 1850s, reflecting on the elemental forces of the sea, with an introduction by Paul TherouxCape Cod chronicles Henry David Thoreau's journey of discovery along this evocative stretch of Massachusetts coastline, during which time he came to understand the complex relationship between the sea and the shore. He spent his nights in lighthouses, in fishing huts, and on isolated farms. He passed his days wandering the beaches, where he observed the wide variety of life and death offered up by the ocean. Through these observations, Thoreau discovered that the only way to truly know the seaits depth, its wildness, and the natural life it containedwas to study it from the shore. Like his most famous work, Walden, Cape Cod is full of Thoreau's unique perceptions and precise descriptions. But it is also full of his own joy and wonder at having stumbled across a new frontier so close to home, where a man may stand and ';put all America behind him.'Part of the Penguin Nature Libraryedited by Edward HoaglandFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;Walden, Civil Disobedience & Walking (3 Classics in One Volume)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built in the woods near Walden Pond, Massachusetts. Thoreau compresses the time into a single calendar year and uses passages of four seasons to symbolize human development. Part memoir, part personal quest, the book is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, where Thoreau hoped to gain a more objective understanding of society through personal introspection. Civil Disobedience or Resistance to Civil Government is an essay by Thoreau in which he argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice. Walking is a transcendental essay in which Thoreau talks about the importance of nature to mankind, and how people cannot survive without nature, physically, mentally, and spiritually, yet we seem to be spending more and more time entrenched by society. For Thoreau walking is a self-reflective spiritual act that occurs only when you are away from society, that allows you to learn about who you are, and find other aspects of yourself that have been chipped away by society. Content:BooksWalden (Life in the Woods)Civil DisobedienceWalkingBiographyThoreau by Ralph Waldo EmersonHenry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, surveyor, and historian. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Civil Disobedience, an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.

Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built in the woods near Walden Pond, Massachusetts. Thoreau compresses the time into a single calendar year and uses passages of four seasons to symbolize human development. Part memoir, part personal quest, the book is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, where Thoreau hoped to gain a more objective understanding of society through personal introspection. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, surveyor, and historian. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Civil Disobedience, an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.

La Désobéissance civile, titre original Civil Disobedience (traduit par Désobéir) est un essai de Henry David Thoreau publié en 1849. H.D. Thoreau écrit sur le thème de la désobéissance civile, en se fondant sur son expérience personnelle. En juillet 1846, Thoreau fut emprisonné, n'ayant volontairement pas payé un impôt à l'état américain, car il lui reprochait de soutenir l'esclavage qui régnait alors dans le Sud et de mener une guerre contre le Mexique. La désobéissance civile est un ouvrage précurseur du concept de la désobéissance civile. Cette édition intégrale du texte de Thoreau est suivie du Discours de la servitude volontaire d'Étienne de La Boétie. Pour Étienne de La Boétie, la servitude des peuples est volontaire : ils acceptent le joug des puissants, mais vont ainsi à l'encontre de leur nature. Ce texte de 1548 pose la question de la légitimité de toute autorité sur une population et essaie d'analyser les raisons de la soumission de celle-ci (rapport domination-servitude). L'originalité de la thèse soutenue par La Boétie est de nous démontrer que, contrairement à ce que beaucoup s'imaginent quand ils pensent que la servitude est forcée, elle est en vérité acceptée. Un petit nombre contraint l'ensemble des autres citoyens à obéir servilement. Tout pouvoir, même quand il s'impose d'abord par la force, ne peut dominer et exploiter durablement une société sans la collaboration, active ou résignée, d'une partie notable de ses membres....Pour La Boétie, « Soyez donc résolus à ne plus servir et vous serez libres ».

1845: Henry David Thoreau zieht sich im Alter von 28 Jahren an den Waldensee zurück, fern aller Zivilisation. In den einsamen Wäldern von Massachusetts unternimmt er ein radikales Selbstexperiment: leben im Einklang mit der Natur. Der Bericht aus den Wäldern ist ein Kultbuch.

Posthumously published in 1864 The Maine Woods, depicts Henry David Thoreau’s experiences in the forests of Maine, and expands on the author’s transcendental theories on the relation of humanity to Nature. On Mount Katahdin, he faces a primal, untamed Nature. Katahdin is a place “not even scarred by man, but it was a specimen of what God saw fit to make this world.” In Maine he comes in contact with “rocks, trees, wind and solid earth” as though he were witness to the creation itself. Of equal importance, The Maine Woods depicts Thoreau’s contact with the American Indians and depicts his tribal education of learning the language, customs, and mores of the Penobscot people. Thoreau attempts to learn and speak the Abenaki language and becomes fascinated with its direct translation of natural phenomena as in the word sebamook—a river estuary that never loses is water despite having an outlet because it also has an inlet. The Maine Woods illustrates the author’s deeper understanding of the complexities of the primal wilderness of uplifted rocky summits in Maine and provides the reader with the pungent aroma of balsam firs, black spruce, mosses, and ferns as only Thoreau could. This new, redesigned edition features an insightful foreword by Thoreau scholar Richard Francis Fleck.

This 1862 essay, a meditation on the joy of walking and its necessity as a remedy for stress, has become one of the most influential works of the modern environmentalist movement.

A meandering ode to the simple act and accomplished art of taking a walk. Profound and humorous, companionable and curmudeonly, Walking, by America's first nature writer, is your personal and portable guide to the activity that, like no other, awakens the senses and the soul to the "absolute freedom and wildness" of nature.