Henry David Thoreau
Subtitle: a life
By: Laura Dassow Walls
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 615
ISBN-13: 9780226344690
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: American Authors; Biography; Naturalists
Description: xx, 615 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: land of the grass-ground river; title: The making of Thoreau. Concord sons and daughters ; Higher learning from Concord to Harvard (1826-1837) ; Transcendental apprentice (1837-1841) ; "Not till we are lost" (1842-1844); title: The making of Walden. "Walden, is it you?" (1845-1847) ; A writer's life (1847-1849) ; From Concord to Cosmos: Thoreau's turn to science (1849-1851) ; The beauty of nature, the baseness of men (1852-1854); title: Successions. Walden-on-Main (1854-1857) ; Wild fruits (1857-1859) ; A constant new creation (1860-1862).