Walden Illustrated

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : BookRix
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9783730993989

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Walden (Illustrated) by Henry David Thoreau Pdf

Walden and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience By Henry David Thoreau Walden (first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self-reliance. First published in 1854, it details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts. The book compresses the time into a single calendar year and uses passages of four seasons to symbolize human development.

Author : Lesa Cline-Ransome
Publisher : Holiday House
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2025-01-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780823460229

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Of Walden Pond by Lesa Cline-Ransome Pdf

From the award-winning author of Before She Was Harriet comes another work of lyrical beauty, the story of Henry David Thoreau and businessman Frederic Tudor—and a changing world. Thoreau and Tudor could not have been more different from each other. Yet both shared the bounties of Walden Pond and would change the course of history through their writings and innovations. This study in opposites contrasts the austere philosopher with the consummate capitalist (whose innovations would change commercial ice harvesting and home refrigerators) to show how two seemingly conflicting American legacies could be built side by side. Oddball/ tax dodger/ nature lover/ dreamer/ That’s what they called/ Thoreau. Bankrupt/ disgrace/ good for nothing/ dreamer/ That’s what they called/ Tudor. Celebrated author Lesa Cline-Ransome takes her magnificent talent for research and detail to plumb the depths of these two history-makers. The graceful text is paired with Ashley Benham-Yazdani’s period accurate watercolor and pencil artwork. In winter, readers see Tudor’s men sawing through the ice, the workhorses dragging the ice, and Thoreau observing it all; in spring, summer, and fall, the ice continues its journey across the globe with Thoreau and Tudor writing and reflecting in their respective diaries. An Author’s Note, which explores how Thoreau’s writings influenced such figures as Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Frost, and Mohandas Gandhi, is included.

Author : Tillie Walden
Publisher : First Second
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781250176240

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Spinning by Tillie Walden Pdf

Tillie Walden's Eisner Award winning graphic memoir Spinning captures what it’s like to come of age, come out, and come to terms with leaving behind everything you used to know. It was the same every morning. Wake up, grab the ice skates, and head to the rink while the world was still dark. Weekends were spent in glitter and tights at competitions. Perform. Smile. And do it again. She was good. She won. And she hated it. For ten years, figure skating was Tillie Walden’s life. She woke before dawn for morning lessons, went straight to group practice after school, and spent weekends competing at ice rinks across the state. Skating was a central piece of her identity, her safe haven from the stress of school, bullies, and family. But as she switched schools, got into art, and fell in love with her first girlfriend, she began to question how the close-minded world of figure skating fit in with the rest of her life, and whether all the work was worth it given the reality: that she, and her friends on the team, were nowhere close to Olympic hopefuls. The more Tillie thought about it, the more Tillie realized she’d outgrown her passion—and she finally needed to find her own voice. This title has Common Core connections. A New York City Public Library Notable Best Book for Teens A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2017 A 2018 YALSA Great Graphic Novel A 2017 Booklist Youth Editors' Choice

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : American essays
ISBN : OCLC:1008221216

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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.

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Cape Cod (Mass.)
ISBN : UCAL:B3260290

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Cape Cod by Henry David Thoreau Pdf

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015031909610

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Walden by Henry David Thoreau Pdf

Author : Michael McCurdy
Publisher : Charlesbridge
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781607342496

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Walden Then & Now by Michael McCurdy Pdf

"I hear a song sparrow singing from the bushes on the shore." --Henry David Thoreau, Walden Henry David Thoreau was an author and naturalist whose book WALDEN still inspires readers today. In it Thoreau documented his experience living in a cabin on Walden Pond, reflecting on the beauty of nature and Mother Earth. Much of his writing, including WALDEN, propelled the environmental movement that exists today. Over one hundred and fifty years later, Michael McCurdy pays tribute to this influential figure and the historic place that inspired Thoreau during his lifetime. In WALDEN THEN & NOW, readers take an alphabetical journey around Walden Pond. McCurdy explores Thoreau’s simple life in his cabin surrounded by nature, and highlights what has changed and what has stayed the same from Thoreau’s time to our own. Readers discover the animals, plants, seasons, and thoughts that Thoreau recorded during his life on the pond as they gain an appreciation for nature and environmentalism. McCurdy’s beautiful wood engravings illustrate this celebration of the joy, solitude, and drama of the natural life of Walden Pond—then and now.

Author : Libby Walden
Publisher : Caterpillar Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 183891420X

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A Walk Through Nature by Libby Walden Pdf

Celebrate the wonders of the natural world with Clover Robin. Marvel at the migration of the swallows, run alongside the river and watch the flowers bloom in this stunning peek-through book of poetry.

Author : Jessica Sjöholm Skrubbe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000527131

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Nell Walden, Der Sturm, and the Collaborative Cultures of Modern Art by Jessica Sjöholm Skrubbe Pdf

Based on hitherto overlooked archival material, this book reveals Nell Walden’s significant impact on the Sturm organisation through a feminist reading of supportive labour that highlights the centrality of collaborative work within the modern art world. This book introduces Walden as an ardent collector of modern and indigenous art and critically contextualises her own art production in relation to expressionist concepts of art and to gendered ideas on abstraction and decoration. Visual analyses highlight how she collaborated with professional and experimental women photographers during the Weimar era and how the circulation of these photographs served as a means to intervene in the public sphere of culture in interwar Germany. Finally, the book provides an analysis of Walden’s continuing work for Der Sturm after her voluntary exile from Germany to Switzerland in 1933 and highlights the importance of women’s supportive labour for the canonisation and institutionalisation of modern art in museums and archives. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual studies, and gender studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 806 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Methodist Church
ISBN : UCAL:$B218089

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The Methodist Quarterly Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Methodist Church
ISBN : NYPL:33433081737912

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The Methodist Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Methodist Church
ISBN : CORNELL:31924057698528

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Methodist Magazine and Quarterly Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781101993262

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The Illustrated Walden by Henry David Thoreau Pdf

To coincide with the bicentennial of Thoreau's birth and TarcherPerigee's publication of Expect Great Things: The Life of Henry David Thoreau, here is a sumptuous rediscovery edition of the first illustrated volume of Thoreau's classic, as originally issued in 1897. In 1897, thirty-five years after Thoreau's death, Houghton Mifflin issued a two-volume "Holiday Edition" of Walden illustrated with thirty remarkable engravings, daguerreotypes, and period photographs. In 1902 the publisher collected the work into a single volume. Now, to mark the bicentennial of Thoreau's birth in 1817, this timeless landmark is reproduced with all of the original illustrations and the complete text of his mystical, practical, magisterial record of a life in the woods.

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Solitude
ISBN : UOM:39015061868538

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Reflections at Walden by Henry David Thoreau Pdf

Reflections at Walden includes Thoreau?s account of how he lived and what he learned during his two years at Walden. We can profit from some of his discoveries:?In proportion as [a man] simplifies his life,? writes Thoreau,?the laws of the universe will appear less complex.? Later he says,?There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of nature." These principles governed Thoreau's life. And in all the writings included here -- selections from "Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Journal, Ktaand and the Maine Woods, and the early poems"--Thoreau speaks of nature with the simple eloquence of a man who is motivated to speech by love.

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Osmora Incorporated
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9782765904960

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Walden (illustrated) by Henry David Thoreau Pdf

Walden (first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self-reliance. First published in 1854, it details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts. The book compresses the time into a single calendar year and uses passages of four seasons to symbolize human development. this version contains new illustrations