Provides in-depth analysis of the literary work Walden, as well as its importance and critical reception. Includes a chronology of the life and works of the author.
"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."--Provided by publisher.
notes, including life of the author, the transcendentalist movement, introduction to Walden, summaries and commentaries, extra-literary recognition of Thoreau, essay questions and theme topics, selected bibliography
Poet Ian Marshall extracts nearly three hundred haiku verses from within Henry David Thoreau's "Walden, " and discusses the haiku form of poetry, Thoreau's text, and American nature writing.
complete texts with introduction, historical contexts, critical essays
Thoreau, Henry David
2000
An annotated edition of nineteenth-century American writer Henry David Thoreau's treatise on nonviolent resistance and protest, "Civil Disobedience," and his reflections upon living alone among nature for two years on Walden Pond in Massachusetts, "Walden"; also includes eighteen writings both contemporary with and in response to Thoreau's.
A mission that begins as an eighth-grade project on Henry David Thoreau's experimental living at Walden Pond becomes a life-changing experience for a group of outsider students who become budding philosophers, environmental activists, and loyal friends.
