Walden: Henry David Thoreau (Macmillan Collector's Library, Band 68)

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Henry Thoreau is considered, along with Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman and Nathaniel Hawthorne, as one of the leading figures in early American literature, and Walden is without doubt his most influential book. It recounts the author's experiences living in a small house in the woods around Walden Pond near Concord in Massachusetts. Thoreau constructed the house himself, with the help of a few friends, and one of the reasons why he moved into it was in an attempt to see if he could live independently and away from society. The result is an intriguing work which blends natural history with philosophical insights and includes many illuminating quotations from other authors. Thoreau's wooden shack has won a place for itself in the collective American psyche, a remarkable achievement for a book with such modest and rustic beginnings. EAN: 9781509826704 Farbverschnitt: Generell werden die Bücher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen. Erscheinungsjahr: 06.10.2016 Produktform: Leinen, Gebunden Beilage: Goldschnitt Titel der Reihe: Macmillan Collector's Library## Autoren: Thoreau, Henry David Seitenzahl/Blattzahl: 360 Abbildungen: illustrations Themenüberschrift: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Keyword: Transcendentalism; 19th century; social experiment; self-reliance; nature; self-sustaining; self-sufficiency; simple living; America; American literature; memoir; gift edition; collector's edition; luxury; deluxe; gift; unabridged; clothbound; book lover; special edition Fachschema: Amerikanische Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung~Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Kriminalroman, Thriller~Tagebuch~Literaturwissenschaft~Ökologie~Massachusetts~Nationalpark - Naturreservat Fachkategorie: Tagebücher, Briefe, Notizbücher~Literarische Essays~Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch~Kriminalromane und Mystery~Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik~Angewandte Ökologie~Biografien: Literatur~Memoiren, Berichte/Erinnerungen~Nationalparks und Naturreservate: Sachbuch, Autobiografien: allgemein Region: Massachusetts Altersempfehlung / Lesealter: 18 ab Alter: 18 Verlag: Pan Macmillan Länge: 157 mm Breite: 101 mm Höhe: 25 mm Gewicht: 209 gr Genre: Importe Herkunftsland: GROSSBRITANNIEN (GB)