Quotable Thoreau (eBook)

Jeffrey S Cramer (Herausgeber)

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2011
552 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3800-4 (ISBN)

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A comprehensive and authoritative collection of Thoreau quotations on more than 150 subjects, from beauty to wisdomFew writers are more quotable 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 His books, essays, journals, poems, letters, and unpublished manuscripts contain an inexhaustible treasure of epigrams and witticisms, from the famous (The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation) to the obscure (Who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 the estranged? Two friends explaining) and the surprising (I would exchange my immortality for a glass of small beer this hot weather). The Quotable Thoreau, the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of Thoreau quotations ever assembled, gathers more than 2,000 memorable passages from this iconoclastic American author, social reformer, environmentalist, and self-reliant thinker. Including Thoreau's thoughts on topics ranging from sex to solitude, manners to miracles, government to God, life to death, and everything in between, the book captures Thoreau's profundity as well as his humor (If misery loves company, misery has company enough). Drawing primarily on The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau, published by Princeton University Press, The Quotable Thoreau is thematically arranged, fully indexed, richly illustrated, and thoroughly documented. For the student of Thoreau, it will be invaluable. For those who think they know Thoreau, it will be a revelation. And for the reader seeking sheer pleasure, it will be a joy.Over 2,000 quotations on more than 150 subjectsRichly illustrated with historic photographs and drawingsThoreau on himself and his contemporariesThoreau's contemporaries on ThoreauBiographical time lineAppendix of misquotations and misattributionsFully indexedSuggestions for further reading

Autor

Jeffrey S. Cramer is curator of collections at the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods, an independent research institution that holds the world's most comprehensive collection of Thoreau-related material. Cramer is the editor of The Portable Thoreau (Penguin), Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition, and I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau, among other books.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.4.2011
• Zusatzinfo: 20 b/w illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: affair • Allen French • ALL THINGS • amos bronson alcott • Analogy • A Plea for Captain John Brown • A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers • bigotry • Book • Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes) • Concord Academy • Criticism • deed • demagogue • Drought • Edition (book) • Elizabeth Peabody • Essays (Montaigne) • First Book • Fruitlands (transcendental center) • fungus • Generosity • Harvard College • Henry David Thoreau • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • His Family • humility • Indian Removal Act • Instant • in the woods • I Wish (manhwa) • James Russell Lowell • Jeffrey S. Cramer • John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry • John L. O'Sullivan • laborer • Lecture • Life Without Principle • Literature • Louis Agassiz • Magnanimity • manure • Manuscript • meanness • Mess of pottage • month • My Neighbor • Nathaniel Hawthorne • newspaper • New Thought • odor • Old Book (ghost) • Orestes Brownson • Ox • Patronymic • Philosopher • Philosophy • pity • Poetry • PostScript • Precedent • Princeton University Library • Princeton University Press • Pronunciation • Proportion (architecture) • Publication • Punctuation • Ralph Waldo Emerson • Reform and the Reformers • Robert Louis Stevenson • Sincerity • Slavery • Slavery in Massachusetts • Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (Concord, Massachusetts) • Small Beer • Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge • Superiority (short story) • Tax • Their Lives • The Peculiar Institution • The Philosopher • The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau • This Country • Thomas Carlyle • Thomas Carlyle and His Works • Thomas Wentworth Higginson • Thoreau Society • Thought • Transcendentalism • Vegetable • vigilance committee • Walden Pond • Walden Woods Project • Washington Goode • Wealth • Wendell Phillips • whispering • Wildness • Writing • year
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3800-2 / 1400838002
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3800-4 / 9781400838004