Walden and Other Writings Publication Date: December 1994| ISBN-10: 0606030328 | ISBN-13: 978-0606030328With their call for "simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!”, for self-honesty, and forharmony with nature, the writings of Henry DavidThoreau are perhaps the most influential philosophicalworks 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 of brilliant observation ofnature--and of himself-...
Twelve Poems and A Story for Christmas Publication Date: October 24, 2005The poems describe the journey of a newlywed couple, Mary and Joseph, to their ancestral homeland where they are to be registered in a census decreed by a tyrant.Mary is pregnant and Joseph knows that the child she is carrying is not his. As they travel through the harsh landscape, they are joined by strangers who have been summoned by dreams, visions, and supernatural events to bear witness to a child whose birth they are told is destined to change the course of human history.In A Miami Christmas Story Raymond Allen, a despairing musician and family man, wr...
Walden; or, Life in the Woods: With "On the Duty of Civil Disobediance" Publication Date: October 1, 2008| ISBN-10: 1603810129 | ISBN-13: 978-1603810128Walden details Thoreau's experiment with self-reliance living by a pond near Concord, MA in 1845-46.His intent is to explore the spiritual benefits of a simplefied life.""The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats.A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.Th...
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