Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (968 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0520054954 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 464 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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In this new biography, based on a rexamination of Thoreau's manuscripts and on a retracing of his trips, Robert Richardson offers a view of Thoreau's life and achievement in their full ninteeth-century context.. The two years Thoreau spent at Walden Pond and the night he spent in the Concord jail are among the most familiar features of the American intellectual landcscape
Five Stars Amazon Customer All expectations were met.. Excellent biography by a great lecturer This intellectual biography of Henry David Thoreau by Bob Richardson gives very good insights into the unfolding of Thoreau's thoughts and life and is an invitation to read and reread Thoreau's works, which can become like guiding lights for the individual in America, thus light for America's future.. Readable Biography of an Interesting Man Richardson provides a readable and interesting biography of Thoreau. Anyone who is interested in reading a biography on Thoreau would do well by choosing this one.
Richardson teaches at the University of Denver. . From Publishers Weekly Emerson described his friend Thoreau as "the bachelor of thought and nature," and in this absorbing and sparklingly fresh biography, which examines and relates the private and public contexts of Thoreau's life from 1837, when he was 20, to his death in 1862, Richardson shows him to have been as much a reader and thinker as a saunterer in the woods. Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. Reader's Subscription Book Club alternate. We see him entering and emerging from the shadow