The Quotable Thoreau /
The Quotable Thoreau /
ed. by Jeffrey S Cramer.
- Course Book
- 1 online resource (552 p.) : 20 halftones.
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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A comprehensive and authoritative collection of Thoreau "ations on more than 150 subjects, from beauty to wisdomFew 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 His books, essays, journals, poems, letters, and unpublished manuscripts contain an inexhaustible treasure of epigrams and witticisms, from the famous (";The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation";) to the obscure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 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 "ations 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 "ations on more than 150 subjectsRichly illustrated with historic photographs and drawingsThoreau on himself and his contemporariesThoreau's contemporaries on ThoreauBiographical time lineAppendix of mis"ations and misattributionsFully indexedSuggestions for further reading
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781400838004
10.1515/9781400838004 doi
Quotations, American.
Thoreau, Henry David--1817-1862--Quotations.
REFERENCE / Quotations.
A Plea for Captain John Brown. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Affair. Allen French. Amos Bronson Alcott. Analogy. Bigotry. Book. Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes). Concord Academy. Criticism. Edition (book). Elizabeth Peabody. Essays (Montaigne). First Book. Fungus. Generosity. Harvard College. Henry David Thoreau. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. His Family. I Wish (manhwa). Instant. Jeffrey S. Cramer. John L. O'Sullivan. Lecture. Life Without Principle. Literature. Magnanimity. Manuscript. Meanness. My Neighbor. Nathaniel Hawthorne. Newspaper. Old Book (ghost). Ox. Philosopher. Philosophy. Pity. Poetry. Precedent. Princeton University Press. Pronunciation. Publication. Punctuation. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Reform and the Reformers. Robert Louis Stevenson. Sincerity. Slavery in Massachusetts. Slavery. Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (Concord, Massachusetts). Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Tax. The Philosopher. The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau. Their Lives. Thomas Carlyle and His Works. Thomas Carlyle. Thoreau Society. Thought. Transcendentalism. Vegetable. Walden Pond. Walden Woods Project. Wendell Phillips. Whispering. Wildness. Writing. Year.
PS3042 / .C69 2011eb
818/.302
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
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
A comprehensive and authoritative collection of Thoreau "ations on more than 150 subjects, from beauty to wisdomFew 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 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 "ations 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 "ations on more than 150 subjectsRichly illustrated with historic photographs and drawingsThoreau on himself and his contemporariesThoreau's contemporaries on ThoreauBiographical time lineAppendix of mis"ations and misattributionsFully indexedSuggestions for further reading
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781400838004
10.1515/9781400838004 doi
Quotations, American.
Thoreau, Henry David--1817-1862--Quotations.
REFERENCE / Quotations.
A Plea for Captain John Brown. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Affair. Allen French. Amos Bronson Alcott. Analogy. Bigotry. Book. Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes). Concord Academy. Criticism. Edition (book). Elizabeth Peabody. Essays (Montaigne). First Book. Fungus. Generosity. Harvard College. Henry David Thoreau. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. His Family. I Wish (manhwa). Instant. Jeffrey S. Cramer. John L. O'Sullivan. Lecture. Life Without Principle. Literature. Magnanimity. Manuscript. Meanness. My Neighbor. Nathaniel Hawthorne. Newspaper. Old Book (ghost). Ox. Philosopher. Philosophy. Pity. Poetry. Precedent. Princeton University Press. Pronunciation. Publication. Punctuation. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Reform and the Reformers. Robert Louis Stevenson. Sincerity. Slavery in Massachusetts. Slavery. Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (Concord, Massachusetts). Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Tax. The Philosopher. The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau. Their Lives. Thomas Carlyle and His Works. Thomas Carlyle. Thoreau Society. Thought. Transcendentalism. Vegetable. Walden Pond. Walden Woods Project. Wendell Phillips. Whispering. Wildness. Writing. Year.
PS3042 / .C69 2011eb
818/.302