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Author Richardson, Robert D., 1934-2020

Title Henry Thoreau : a life of the mind / Robert D. Richardson, Jr. ; designed and illustrated by Barry Moser
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, c1986

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Description 1 online resource (x, 455 p.)
Contents 1837 Return to Concord -- 1838-1840 The ethical imperatives to transcendentalism -- 1841-1843 American reformation -- 1843-1845 The road to Walden Pond -- 1846-1849 The profession of letters -- 1849-1851 The language of the leopard -- 1851-1852 New books, new worlds -- 1852-1854 Walden, or the triumph of the organic -- 1854-1862 The economy of nature
Summary Offers a view of Thoreau's life and his extraordinary achievement in their nineteenth-century context
Analysis English literature American writers Thoreau, Henry David - Biographies
Bibliography Bibliography: p. [393]-395
Notes Includes index
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Subject Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
SUBJECT Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 fast
Subject Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography
Intellectuals -- United States -- Biography
Naturalists -- United States -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Authors, American
Intellectuals
Naturalists
United States
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021700787
ISBN 9780520908857
0520908856