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1) Walden
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c1962
Language
English
Description
With their call for "simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!", for self-honesty, and for harmony with nature, the writings of Henry David Thoreau are perhaps the most influential philosophical works in all American literature. The selections in this volume represent Thoreau at his best. Included in their entirety are Walden, his indisputable masterpiece, and his two great arguments for nonconformity, Civil Disobedience and Life Without Principle. A lifetime...
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
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.
16) 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
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.
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."
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,...
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...
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