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Where I Lived, and What I Lived For

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Henry Thoreau
SeriesPenguin Great Ideas
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:112
Dimensions(mm): Height 181,Width 111
Category/GenreLiterary essays
ISBN/Barcode 9780141023977
ClassificationsDewey:818.303
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
Publication Date 25 August 2005
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are. Thoreau's account of his solitary and self-sufficient home in the New England woods remains an inspiration to the environmental movement - a call to his fellow men to abandon their striving, materialistic existences of quiet desperation' for a simple life within their means, finding spiritual truth through awareness of the sheer beauty of their surroundings.

Author Biography

Henry David Thoreau (1817-62) was born in Concord, Massachusetts and educated at Harvard. He became a follower and a friend of Emerson, and described himself as a mystic and a transcendentalist. Although he published only two books in his lifetime, Walden (from which this book is taken) is regarded as a literary masterpeice and one of the most significant books of the 19th century.