Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015031909610
Walden
Henry David Thoreau
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CliffsNotes on Thoreau's Walden
Joseph R McElrath
Author : Joseph R McElrath
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780544184510
CliffsNotes on Thoreau's Walden by Joseph R McElrath Pdf
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. In CliffsNotes on Walden, you discover the most important work of Henry David Thoreau—his exploration of the transcendentalist's striving to realize the possibility of one's own perfection and divinity. What results is an account of Thoreau's two-year stay at Walden Pond, as he celebrates nature as he moves toward spiritual rebirth and fulfillment. Chapter summaries and commentaries take you through Thoreau's journey, and essays help you understand the Transcendentalist movement and Thoreau's place in it. Other features that help you study include A section on the life and background of Henry David Thoreau A section of essay questions and theme topics A selected bibliography Classic literature or modern-day treasure—you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
Henry Thoreau
Author : Henry Thoreau
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141964294
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For by Henry Thoreau Pdf
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are. Thoreau's account of his solitary and self-sufficient home in the New England woods remains an inspiration to the environmental movement - a call to his fellow men to abandon their striving, materialistic existences of 'quiet desperation' for a simple life within their means, finding spiritual truth through awareness of the sheer beauty of their surroundings.
Walden
Henry David Thoreau
Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : American essays
ISBN : OCLC:1008221216
Walden by Henry David Thoreau Pdf
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience: This is Thoreau's classic protest against government's interference with individual liberty. One of the most famous essays ever written, it came to the attention of Gandhi and formed the basis for his passive resistance movement.
Cliffs Notes on Thoreau's Walden
Joseph R. McElrath
Author : Joseph R. McElrath
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:731366911
Cliffs Notes on Thoreau's Walden by Joseph R. McElrath Pdf
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Henry David Thoreau
Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Concord River
ISBN : NYPL:33433074827639
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau Pdf
Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau
Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781775412465
Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau Pdf
Thoreau wrote Civil Disobedience in 1849. It argues the superiority of the individual conscience over acquiescence to government. Thoreau was inspired to write in response to slavery and the Mexican-American war. He believed that people could not be made agents of injustice if they were governed by their own consciences.
CliffsNotes on Thoreau's Walden
Joseph R. McElrath, Jr.
Author : Joseph R. McElrath, Jr.
Publisher : Cliffs Notes
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1964-01-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822013584
CliffsNotes on Thoreau's Walden by Joseph R. McElrath, Jr. Pdf
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. In CliffsNotes on Walden, you discover the most important work of Henry David Thoreau – his exploration of the transcendentalist's striving to realize the possibility of one's own perfection and divinity. What results is an account of Thoreau's two-year stay at Walden Pond, as he celebrates nature as he moves toward spiritual rebirth and fulfillment. Chapter summaries and commentaries take you through Thoreau's journey, and essays help you understand the Transcendentalist movement and Thoreau's place in it. Other features that help you study include A section on the life and background of Henry David Thoreau A section of essay questions and theme topics A selected bibliography Classic literature or modern modern-day treasure — you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
Jerome Lawrence,Robert Edwin Lee
Author : Jerome Lawrence,Robert Edwin Lee
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0573613001
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail by Jerome Lawrence,Robert Edwin Lee Pdf
"This drama opens with Thoreau in jail for refusing to pay taxes to a government conducting a war of aggression in Mexico, at midpoint shows Emerson visiting him, and ends on the morning of his release."--Publisher's website.
Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
Jerome Lawrence,Robert Edwin Lee
Author : Jerome Lawrence,Robert Edwin Lee
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0613462025
Night Thoreau Spent in Jail by Jerome Lawrence,Robert Edwin Lee Pdf
A dramatic presentation of Thoreau's famous act of civil disobedience in protest of the U.S. government's involvement in the Mexican War
Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer
Author : Jon Krakauer
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307476869
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer Pdf
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. This is the unforgettable story of how Christopher Johnson McCandless came to die. "It may be nonfiction, but Into the Wild is a mystery of the highest order." —Entertainment Weekly McCandess had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Not long after, he was dead. Into the Wild is the mesmerizing, heartbreaking tale of an enigmatic young man who goes missing in the wild and whose story captured the world’s attention. Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a vision quest like those made by his heroes Jack London and John Muir. In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his cash. He would give himself a new name, Alexander Supertramp, and, unencumbered by money and belongings, he would be free to wallow in the raw, unfiltered experiences that nature presented. Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw the maps away. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild. Jon Krakauer constructs a clarifying prism through which he reassembles the disquieting facts of McCandless's short life. Admitting an interest that borders on obsession, he searches for the clues to the drives and desires that propelled McCandless. When McCandless's innocent mistakes turn out to be irreversible and fatal, he becomes the stuff of tabloid headlines and is dismissed for his naiveté, pretensions, and hubris. He is said to have had a death wish but wanting to die is a very different thing from being compelled to look over the edge. Krakauer brings McCandless's uncompromising pilgrimage out of the shadows, and the peril, adversity, and renunciation sought by this enigmatic young man are illuminated with a rare understanding—and not an ounce of sentimentality. Into the Wild is a tour de force. The power and luminosity of Jon Krakauer's stoytelling blaze through every page.
The Great Work of Your Life
Stephen Cope
Author : Stephen Cope
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780345535689
The Great Work of Your Life by Stephen Cope Pdf
An inspiring guide to finding your life’s purpose—what spiritual teachers call dharma—through mindfulness and self-exploration. Stephen Cope says that in order to have a fulfilling life you must discover the deep purpose hidden at the very core of your self. The secret to unlocking this mystery, he asserts, can be found in the pages of a two-thousand-year-old spiritual classic called the Bhagavad Gita—an ancient allegory about the path to dharma, told through a timeless dialogue between the fabled archer, Arjuna, and his divine mentor, Krishna. Cope takes readers on a step-by-step tour of this revered tale and highlights well-known Western lives that embody its central principles—including such luminaries as Jane Goodall, Walt Whitman, Susan B. Anthony, John Keats, and Harriet Tubman, along with stories of ordinary people as well. If you’re feeling lost in your own life’s journey, The Great Work of Your Life may help you to find and to embrace your true calling. Praise for The Great Work of Your Life “Keep a pen and paper handy as you read this remarkable book: It’s like an owner’s manual for the soul.”—Dani Shapiro, author of Devotion “A masterwork . . . You’ll find inspiration in these pages. You’ll gain a better appreciation of divine guidance and perhaps even understand how you might better hear it in your own life.”—Yoga Journal “I am moved and inspired by this book, the clarity and beauty of the lives lived in it, and the timeless dharma it teaches.”—Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart “A rich source of contemplation and inspiration [that] encourages readers . . . to discover and fully pursue their inner self’s calling.”—Publishers Weekly “Fabulous . . . If you have ever wondered what your purpose is, this book is a great guide to help you on your path.”—YogaHara
A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses
Anne Trubek
Author : Anne Trubek
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-11
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780812205817
A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses by Anne Trubek Pdf
There are many ways to show our devotion to an author besides reading his or her works. Graves make for popular pilgrimage sites, but far more popular are writers' house museums. What is it we hope to accomplish by trekking to the home of a dead author? We may go in search of the point of inspiration, eager to stand on the very spot where our favorite literary characters first came to life—and find ourselves instead in the house where the author himself was conceived, or where she drew her last breath. Perhaps it is a place through which our writer passed only briefly, or maybe it really was a longtime home—now thoroughly remade as a decorator's show-house. In A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses Anne Trubek takes a vexed, often funny, and always thoughtful tour of a goodly number of house museums across the nation. In Key West she visits the shamelessly ersatz shrine to a hard-living Ernest Hemingway, while meditating on his lost Cuban farm and the sterile Idaho house in which he committed suicide. In Hannibal, Missouri, she walks the fuzzy line between fact and fiction, as she visits the home of the young Samuel Clemens—and the purported haunts of Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, and Injun' Joe. She hits literary pay-dirt in Concord, Massachusetts, the nineteenth-century mecca that gave home to Hawthorne, Emerson, and Thoreau—and yet could not accommodate a surprisingly complex Louisa May Alcott. She takes us along the trail of residences that Edgar Allan Poe left behind in the wake of his many failures and to the burned-out shell of a California house with which Jack London staked his claim on posterity. In Dayton, Ohio, a charismatic guide brings Paul Laurence Dunbar to compelling life for those few visitors willing to listen; in Cleveland, Trubek finds a moving remembrance of Charles Chesnutt in a house that no longer stands. Why is it that we visit writers' houses? Although admittedly skeptical about the stories these buildings tell us about their former inhabitants, Anne Trubek carries us along as she falls at least a little bit in love with each stop on her itinerary and finds in each some truth about literature, history, and contemporary America.
Life Without Principle
Henry David Thoreau
Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : Anarchism
ISBN : UOM:39015080471215
Life Without Principle by Henry David Thoreau Pdf
CliffsNotes on Thoreau, Emerson, and Transcendentalism
Leslie P Wilson
Author : Leslie P Wilson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780544184220
CliffsNotes on Thoreau, Emerson, and Transcendentalism by Leslie P Wilson Pdf
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. CliffsNotes on Thoreau, Emerson, and Transcendentalism explores in depth, but also in easy-to-understand terms, transcendentalism—the religious, political, and literary movement that captured the minds of such literary figures as Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson in the first half of the 19th century. This guide helps you to understand the various tenets of transcendentalism, as well as how Thoreau and Emerson became the two most well-known figures associated with the movement and how the transcendentalist philosophy is reflected in their work. In addition to introducing you to the basics of understanding transcendentalism, this guide also gives you the following: Examinations of the lives of Thoreau and Emerson Detailed summaries of and commentaries on many of their transcendentalist writings, such as Emerson's Nature and Thoreau's Walden Critical essays on Emerson and Thoreau's reputation and influence A review section that tests your knowledge A Resource Center full of books, articles, and Internet sites Classic literature or modern-day treasure—you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.