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Write a customer review. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. I have enjoyed this book to it's fullest degree. I have always been a Thoreau fan, and frequently come back to this book. I am never alone when reading it. I transpose myself into nature on the coldest of days. When I wrote, " Above His Shoulders" I use many metaphors in nature to proceed through my depression and find hope. Thoreau's work has always inspired me.
With the popularity on Into the Wild, thank God we saw an increase in his works. I will forever continue to seek for truth, and find solace in nature.
Editorial Reviews. From Library Journal. After years, Thoreau's elegant and sometimes The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau: Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde - Kindle edition by Henry David Thoreau, Lewis Hyde. Download it once and. With The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau, Lewis Hyde gathers thirteen of . “This thoughtfully-edited gathering of Thoreau's essays will surely be of great interest both to Includes 'A Note on the Selection' of the essays, a bibliography, thirteen .
It helped me get through my sexual abuse and treatment. The introduction by Lewis Hyde is superb as is the book's design and editing.
Received in good condition. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. One thing that I have found with the kindle text is that the electronic formatting often displays words disjointed. For example, a word within a sentence may look something like th- is or perh aps even something like this. Spacing for example Wouldn't mind having more notes within the text much better than end notes.
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It was shipped quickly and the book itself was in good condition. Great to work with this company. I have ordered many books from them before and am always pleased. It was in a plastic sealed bag that was ripped open down the side. I think the post office put rubber bands around it, but it's lucky the books weren't damaged.
I'm pleased with the book but disappointed with the shipping method. When Professor Hyde set out to use selected Thoreau essays in his seminar at Kenyon College, he found no book that contained the writings he wanted. So he created one that did. Some of these titles are more familiar to us than others, because writings such as "Civil Disobedience" and "Walking" appear in dozens if not hundreds of compilation volumes.
I found two gems in this book. The first is Hyde's own introductory essay, "Prophetic Excursions," which provides a personal and unique perspective for approaching the genre. An Address to all Intelligent Men" by J.
Etzler evidently proposed to use the energy produced by the wind, the tide, the waves, and sunshine in order to power all the machinery needs of mankind. And Henry shoots him down at every turn! One wonders what either man would think of our current solar energy efforts and those proposals to put wind farms on Cape Cod. Of additional interest here are the annotations to the text, in which Hyde lets us in on many of Thoreau's inside jokes and references -- the kinds of remarks that would have been obvious to his contemporaries and to anyone with reading knowledge of classical literature.
Even the cover art was well-chosen for this volume. The inspiration was obviously taken from "Slavery in Massachusetts," when Thoreau stops in the midst of railing against the injustices of the Fugitive Slave Law to talk about the scent of a water lily: It reminds me that Nature has been partner to no Missouri Compromise. The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it, for the purity and courage which are immortal.
That's one of the points Lewis Hyde makes with this volume: It's impossible to focus on just one or the other. Astonishing that so many pages of such great writing and such wonderful, interesting annotations can be purchased for so little money. We have needed an inexpensive annotated edition of Thoreau's best short prose for a very long time, and this clearly fits the bill.
Teachers and students, in particular, will find this book extraordinarily useful. The Thoreau material and annotations alone are extraordinarily valuable, but Hyde's excellent introduction on Thoreau's "Prophetic Excursions" make this the best deal available for a Thoreau book. Buy it; you'll be glad you did! See all 8 reviews. Amazon Giveaway allows you to run promotional giveaways in order to create buzz, reward your audience, and attract new followers and customers.
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Thoreau's work has always inspired me. With the popularity on Into the Wild, thank God we saw an increase in his works. I will forever continue to seek for truth, and find solace in nature.
It helped me get through my sexual abuse and treatment. The introduction by Lewis Hyde is superb as is the book's design and editing.
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Received in good condition. One thing that I have found with the kindle text is that the electronic formatting often displays words disjointed. For example, a word within a sentence may look something like th- is or perh aps even something like this. Spacing for example Wouldn't mind having more notes within the text much better than end notes. Feedback Als je hulp nodig hebt of een vraag hebt voor de klantenservice, neem dan contact met ons op.
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