Penguin Great Ideas

Where I Lived, and What I Lived For

Thoreau, Henry

Penguin Great Ideas: Where I Lived, and What I Lived For

Twenty }Penguin Great Ideas{ encompassing a riot of competing values. These short, astonishing works of non-fiction are drawn from the most remarkable writing of the past two and a half thousand years of human thinking

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Henry David Thoreau (1817-62) was born in Concord, Massachusetts and educated at Harvard. He became a follower and a friend of Emerson, and described himself as a mystic and a transcendentalist. Although he published only two books in his lifetime, Walden (from which this book is taken) is regarded as a literary masterpeice and one of the most significant books of the 19th century.

ISBN: 9780141023977
Pagina's: 112
Verschenen: 01-01-2005
Serie: Penguin Great Ideas
NUR: 309

Druk: 1
Uitvoering: Paperback / softback
Taal: Engels
Uitgever: Penguin Books Ltd

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