A Year with Thoreau

by Henry David Thoreau, Russell W Birch (Editor)

Overview

Maybe you were taught in high school that Henry David Thoreau just wrote about Nature. Your textbook included a few paragraphs about the woods surrounding Walden Pond - and that was it! But did you know that Thoreau's best writing had little to do with nature? He wrote about how to live a meaningful life. A Year with Thoreau includes Thoreau's insights on:

- Simplicity
- Contentment
- Character
- Awakening
- Wealth
- Solitude
- Work
- Debt
- Faith
- Technology
- Grief
- Truth

You will even find out what Thoreau wanted to do to people who cut down rare trees!

This book offers more than a collection of short quotes. Each page includes broad context and is fully annotated. A Year with Thoreau is meant to be part of your daily routine, with 365 passages selected from Henry David Thoreau's journal, books, essays, letters, and poems. Read just one page each day – for a year – and spend A Year with Thoreau

"How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones."
– Walden, by Henry David Thoreau

"So now I would say something similar to you, my readers. Since you are my readers, and I have not been much of a traveller, I will not talk about people a thousand miles off, but come as near home as I can. As the time is short, I will leave out all the flattery, and retain all the criticism.
Let us consider the way in which we spend our lives."
– Life Without Principle, by Henry David Thoreau

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798765565230
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	05/19/2022
Pages:	396
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

Massachusetts native Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was a leading member of the American Transcendentalist movement, whose faith in nature was tested while Thoreau lived in a homemade hut at Walden Pond between 1845 and 1847. While there, Thoreau worked on the two books published in his lifetime: Walden and A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, Excursions, and other works were published posthumously.

Date of Birth:

July 12, 1817

Date of Death:

May 6, 1862

Place of Birth:

Concord, Massachusetts

Place of Death:

Concord, Massachusetts

Education:

Concord Academy, 1828-33); Harvard University, 1837