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 ● Zoл Pollak ● Jordan Salama ● Tatiana Schlossberg ● A. O. Scott ● Mona Simpson ● Stacey Vanek Smith ● Wen Stephenson ● Robert Sullivan ● Amor Towles ● Sherry Turkle ● Geoff Wisner ● Rafia Zakaria ● and a cartoon by Sandra Boynton The world is never done catching up with Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), the author of Walden, "Civil Disobedience," and other classics. A prophet of environmentalism and vegetarianism, an abolitionist, and a critic of materialism and technology, Thoreau even seems to have anticipated a world of social distancing in his famous experiment at Walden Pond. In Now Comes Good Sailing, twenty-seven of today's leading writers offer wide-ranging original pieces exploring how Thoreau has influenced and inspired them--and why he matters more than ever in an age of climate, racial, and technological reckoning. Here, Lauren Groff retreats from the COVID-19 pandemic to a rural house and writing hut, where, unable to write, she re-reads Walden; Pico Iyer describes how Thoreau provided him with an unlikely guidebook to Japan; Gerald Early examines Walden and the Black quest for nature; Rafia Zakaria reflects on solitude, from Thoreau's Concord to her native Pakistan; Mona Simpson follows in Thoreau's footsteps at Maine's Mount Katahdin; Jennifer Finney Boylan reads Thoreau in relation to her experience of coming out as a trans woman; Adam Gopnik traces Thoreau's influence on TheNew Yorker editor E. B. White and his book Charlotte's Web; and there's much more. The result is a lively and compelling collection that richly demonstrates the countless ways Thoreau continues to move, challenge, and provoke readers today.
Название: Now comes good sailing ISBN: 0691247951 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691247953 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 2533.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Thoreau, Henry David Название: Walden ISBN: 0199538069 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199538065 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 1424.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In 1845 Henry David Thoreau, disdainful of America`s growing commercialism and industrialism, left his home town of Concord, Massachusetts to begin a new life alone, in a rough hut on the north-west shore of Walden Pond. Walden is Thoreau`s classic autobiographical account of this experiment in solitary living. This new edition of Walden traces the sources of Thoreau`s reading and thinking and considers the author in the context of his birthplace and his sense of its history - social, economic and natural. In addition, an ecological appendix provides modern identifications of the myriad plants and animals to which Thoreau gave increasingly close attention as he became acclimatized to his life in the woods by Walden Pond.
Автор: Thoreau, Henry David Название: Walden, civil disobedience and other writings ISBN: 0393930904 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780393930900 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 2058.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In addition to the texts of "Walden" and "Civil Disobedience", this title reprints the important works, "Slavery in Massachusetts", "Walking" and "Wild Apples". It includes the best critical writing on the texts by nineteen contributors.
Автор: Branka Arsic Название: Dispersion: Thoreau and Vegetal Thought ISBN: 1501370626 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501370625 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 4592.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Plants are silent, still, or move slowly; we do not have the sense that they accompany us, or even perceive us. But is there something that plants are telling us? Is there something about how they live and connect, how they relate to the world and other plants that can teach us about ecological thinking, about ethics and politics? Grounded in Thoreau’s ecology and in contemporary plant studies, Dispersion: Thoreau and Vegetal Thought offers answers to those questions by pondering such concepts as co-dependence, the continuity of life forms, relationality, cohabitation, porousness, fragility, the openness of beings to incessant modification by other beings and phenomena, patience, waiting, slowness and receptivity.
Автор: Branka Arsic Название: Dispersion: Thoreau and Vegetal Thought ISBN: 1501370588 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501370588 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 15048.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Plants are silent, still, or move slowly; we do not have the sense that they accompany us, or even perceive us. But is there something that plants are telling us? Is there something about how they live and connect, how they relate to the world and other plants that can teach us about ecological thinking, about ethics and politics?
Grounded in Thoreau’s ecology and in contemporary plant studies, Dispersion: Thoreau and Vegetal Thought offers answers to those questions by pondering such concepts as co-dependence, the continuity of life forms, relationality, cohabitation, porousness, fragility, the openness of beings to incessant modification by other beings and phenomena, patience, waiting, slowness and receptivity.
Автор: Edward F. Mooney Название: Excursions with Thoreau: Philosophy, Poetry, Religion ISBN: 1501305646 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501305641 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 4275.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Excursions with Thoreau is a major new exploration of Thoreau’s writing and thought that is philosophical yet sensitive to the literary and religious. Edward F. Mooney’s excursions through passages from Walden, Cape Cod, and his late essay “Walking” reveal Thoreau as a miraculous writer, artist, and religious adept. Of course Thoreau remains the familiar political activist and environmental philosopher, but in these fifteen excursions we discover new terrain. Among the notable themes that emerge are Thoreau’s grappling with underlying affliction; his pursuit of wonder as ameliorating affliction; his use of the enigmatic image of “a child of the mist”; his exalting “sympathy with intelligence” over plain knowledge; and his preferring “befitting reverie”—not argument—as the way to be carried to better, cleaner perceptions of reality. Mooney’s aim is bring alive Thoreau’s moments of reverie and insight, and to frame his philosophy as poetic and episodic rather than discursive and systematic.
Автор: Edward F. Mooney Название: Excursions with Thoreau: Philosophy, Poetry, Religion ISBN: 1501305654 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501305658 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 22176.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Excursions with Thoreau is a major new exploration of Thoreau’s writing and thought that is philosophical yet sensitive to the literary and religious. Edward F. Mooney’s excursions through passages from Walden, Cape Cod, and his late essay “Walking” reveal Thoreau as a miraculous writer, artist, and religious adept. Of course Thoreau remains the familiar political activist and environmental philosopher, but in these fifteen excursions we discover new terrain. Among the notable themes that emerge are Thoreau’s grappling with underlying affliction; his pursuit of wonder as ameliorating affliction; his use of the enigmatic image of “a child of the mist”; his exalting “sympathy with intelligence” over plain knowledge; and his preferring “befitting reverie”—not argument—as the way to be carried to better, cleaner perceptions of reality. Mooney’s aim is bring alive Thoreau’s moments of reverie and insight, and to frame his philosophy as poetic and episodic rather than discursive and systematic.
Автор: Thoreau Henry David Название: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (annotated) ISBN: 1519308396 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781519308399 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 1698.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Thoreau Henry David Название: Walden and Civil Disobedience ISBN: 1513221108 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781513221106 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2744.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Piano Player Uplifting Classics presents 20 of the most famous pieces of classical music, ideal to lift the spirits specially arranged for intermediate solo piano. Contents include Can-Can by Offenbach, Jerusalem by Parry and William Tell Overture by Rossini. The striking cover features Edward Bawdens colour linocut Aesops Fables Peacock and Magpie, 1970, and a 4-page pullout provides the full artwork as a beautiful collectible. The Piano Player series includes six wonderful collections of some of the greatest classical music ever written, specially arranged for the intermediate pianist, each with its own collectible pull-out
Автор: Thoreau Henry David Название: Civil Disobedience and Other Essays ISBN: 1420956396 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781420956399 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2389.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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American author, naturalist, and abolitionist, Henry David Thoreau was a principal figure of the 19th century movement of Transcendentalism. Central to the philosophy is a belief that people, who are inherently good, are corrupted by the organized institutions of society and that consequently the best community is one that is built upon on independence and self-reliance. This corrupting influence is discussed in one of Thoreau's most famous essay, "Civil Disobedience", in which he argues that individuals have a duty to resist their acquiescence to governmental injustice. Also contained in this collection are the following additional essays: "Natural History of Massachusetts", "A Walk to Wachusett", "The Landlord", "A Winter Walk", "The Succession of Forest Trees", "Walking", "Autumnal Tints", "The Scarlet Oak", "Wild Apples", "Night and Moonlight", "Aulus Persius Flaccus", "Herald of Freedom", "Life Without Principle", "Paradise (to be) Regained", "A Plea for John Brown", "The Last Days of John Brown", "After the Death of John Brown", "The Service", "Slavery in Massachusetts", and "Wendell Phillips Before Concord Lyceum". This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.
Автор: Thoreau, Henry David Название: Walden, (1854), by Henry David Thoreau (Worlds Classics) ISBN: 1533105162 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781533105165 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1474.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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