The Quotable Thoreau /

The Quotable Thoreau / / ed. by Jeffrey S Cramer.

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Few writers are more "able than Henry David Thoreau. His books, essays, journals, poems, letters, and unpublished manuscripts contain an inexhaustible treasure of epigrams and witticisms, from the famous ("The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation") to the obscure ("Who are...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
HerausgeberIn:
Cramer, Jeffrey S,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (552 p.) :; 20 halftones.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • A NOTE ON THE TEXTS
  • INTRODUCTION: THOREAU'S GARMENT OF ART
  • ON PRONOUNCING THE NAME THOREAU
  • A THOREAU CHRONOLOGY
  • THOREAU DESCRIBES HIMSELF
  • QUESTIONS
  • THE THOUGHTS AND WORDS OF HENRY D. THOREAU
  • Beauty - Good and Evil
  • Government and Politics - Manners
  • Nature- Work and Business
  • On Miscellaneous Subjects
  • Thoreau Describes His Contemporaries
  • Thoreau Described by His Contemporaries
  • Appendix. Misquotations and Misattributions
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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