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Walden, or, Life in the Woods ; and, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience / by Henry David Thoreau ; with an afterword by Perry Miller.
LIBRA - Rare PS3048 .A1 1960 Potok copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
- Series:
- Signet classic
- A Signet classic ; CD32
- Standardized Title:
- Walden
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862--Homes and haunts--Massachusetts--Walden Woods.
- Thoreau, Henry David.
- Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
- Walden Woods (Mass.)--Social life and customs.
- Walden Woods (Mass.).
- Wilderness areas--Massachusetts--Walden Woods.
- Wilderness areas.
- Massachusetts--Walden Woods.
- Natural history--Massachusetts--Walden Woods.
- Natural history.
- Authors, American--19th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Solitude.
- Civil disobedience.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 255 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 18 cm.
- Other Title:
- Life in the woods
- On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : Published by The New American Library, [1960]
- Contents:
- Walden, or Life in the Woods. Economy; Where I lived, and what I lived for; Reading; Sounds' Solitude; Visitors; The bean-field; The village; The ponds; Baker farm; Higher laws; Brute neighbors; House-warming; Former inhabitants; and winter visitors; Winter animals; The pond in winter; Spring; Conclusion
- On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
- Poems. Sic Vita; Winter memories; To the maiden in the east; Smoke; Mist; Inspiration.
- Notes:
- "Afterword © 1960 by The New American Library of World Literature, Inc.
- "A timeless treasury of the world's great writings, Signet Classics are especially selected and handsomely designed for the living library of the modern reader."
- "Also included in this Signet Classics edition is a representative selection of Thoreau's poetry"--Cover.
- Includes bibliographical references (page [256]).
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy has autograph of "H. Potok Aug. 1963 Nyack".
- Potok Collection copy is "Sixteenth Printing, July, 1962".
- Potok Collection copy has underlines and marginal marks.
- OCLC:
- 1085286683
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