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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"An anthology of original reflections on Henry David Thoreau's life and work"--
"From twenty-seven of today's leading writers, an anthology of original pieces on the author of Walden. Features essays by Jennifer Finney Boylan, Kristen Case, George Howe Colt, Gerald Early, Paul Elie, Will Eno, Adam Gopnik, Lauren Groff, Celeste Headlee, Pico Iyer, Alan Lightman, James Marcus, Megan Marshall, Michelle Nijhuis, Zoë Pollak, Jordan Salama, Tatiana Schlossberg,...
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Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Although he loves his freedom, Henry, a bear modeled on Henry Thoreau, goes to jail rather than go against his principles. Based on an incident in the life of Henry David Thoreau.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While his friend works hard to earn the train fare to Fitchburg, young Henry Thoreau walks the thirty miles through woods and fields, enjoying nature and the time to think great thoughts. Includes biographical information about Thoreau.
Author
Publisher
Collins
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Thoreau is one of those authors that readers think they know, even if they don't. He's the solitary curmudgeon with the shack out in the woods, the mystic worshipping solemnly in the quiet church of nature. He's our national Natural Man, the prophet of environmentalism. But here Robert Sullivan--who himself has been called an "urban Thoreau"--presents the Thoreau you don't know: the activist, the organizer, the gregarious adventurer, the guy who likes...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
From the publisher. Henry David Thoreau has long been an intellectual icon and folk hero. In this strikingly original profile, Michael Sims reveals how the bookish, quirky young man who kept quitting jobs evolved into the patron saint of environmentalism and nonviolent activism. Working from nineteenth-century letters and diaries by Thoreau’s family, friends, and students, Sims charts Henry’s course from his time at Harvard through the years...
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Drawing on Thoreaus copious writings, published and unpublished, Walls presents a Thoreau vigorously alive in all his quirks and contradictions: the young man shattered by the sudden death of his brother; the ambitious Harvard College student; the ecstatic visionary who closed Walden with an account of the regenerative power of the Cosmos. We meet the man whose belief in human freedom and the value of labor made him an uncompromising abolitionist;...
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Daegan Miller is our guide on a beautifully written, revelatory trip across the continent during which we encounter radical thinkers, settlers, and artists who grounded their ideas of freedom, justice, and progress in the very landscapes around them, even as the runaway engine of capitalism sought to steamroll everything in its path. Here we meet Thoreau, the expert surveyor, drawing anticapitalist property maps. We visit a black antislavery community...
Author
Series
Gospel according to Larry volume 3
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Larry (otherwise known as Josh) is in the doldrums, but after meeting a spiritual guru at Walden Pond who convinces him to join his study group, he starts to question his grasp of reality.
11) The seeker
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A young graduate student travels to Walden Pond expecting to find inspiration in the quiet solitude, but finds something eerie and malevolent living in Thoreau's woods."--Front jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
TarcherPerigee
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"To coincide with the bicentennial of Thoreau's birth in 2017, this thrilling, meticulous biography by naturalist and historian Kevin Dann fills a gap in our understanding of one modern history's most important spiritual visionaries by capturing the full arc of Thoreau's life as a mystic, spiritual seeker, and explorer in transcendental realms. This sweeping, epic biography of Henry David Thoreau sees Thoreau's world as the mystic himself saw it:...
13) Walden
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old 'Hank,' who can't remember his identity, finds himself in Penn Station with a copy of Thoreau's Walden as his only possession and must figure out where he's from and why he ran away."
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This book explores resilience by tracing the linked stories of how Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and William James dealt with personal tragedy: for Emerson, the death of his young wife and, eleven years later, his five-year-old son; for Thoreau, the death of his brother; and for James, the death of his beloved cousin Minny. Weaving together biographical detail with quotations from the writers' journals and letters, Richardson shows readers...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by the letters and diaries of Henry David Thoreau, this moving novel inhabits his life and mind"--
""A luscious novel . . . [Helen] Humphreys offers a fresh view of a philosopher thought of as a loner, depicting his family home as a place for communion and companionship . . . This is Thoreau as he really lived." — Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic A novel as wise as it is tender, a meditation on the miracle of friendship and the heartbreak...
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