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Walden / Henry David Thoreau.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
- Series:
- Running Press classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862--Homes and haunts--Massachusetts--Walden Woods.
- Thoreau, Henry David.
- Walden Woods (Mass.)--Social life and customs.
- Walden Woods (Mass.).
- Wilderness areas--Massachusetts--Walden Woods.
- Wilderness areas.
- Natural history--Massachusetts--Walden Woods.
- Natural history.
- Authors, American--19th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Solitude.
- Loneliness.
- Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
- Homes.
- Manners and customs.
- Massachusetts--Walden Woods.
- Medical Subjects:
- Loneliness.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Teacher, Stuart (donor) (Running Press copy)
- Physical Description:
- 207, [9] pages : portrait ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pa. : Running Press, 1987.
- Contents:
- Walden. 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
- Essays / By E. B. White; By Max Lerner.
- Notes:
- "The text of this volume is reprinted from a first edition of 'Walden: or, Life in the Woods' published in 1854 by Ticknor and Fields, Boston."--Page [4].
- "The essay Thoreau: No Hermit by Max Lerner is reprinted by permission of Max Lerner from 'Ideas Are Weapons' by Max Lerner, copyright © 1939 by Max Lerner (The Viking Press, Inc., New York)"--Page [4].
- "The essay A Slight Sound at Evening by E. B. White, from 'Essays of E. B. White,' copyright © 1954, renewed 1982 by E. B. White, is reprinted by permission of Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc."--Page [4].
- "Cover illustration by Roy Purcell. Cover design by Toby Schmidt. Typography: English Times and Plantin by rci, Philadelphia Augustea Open by Letraset."--Page [4].
- Local Notes:
- Running Press Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2008 by Stuart "Buz" Teacher.
- Running Press copy is "2" printing.
- ISBN:
- 0894714953
- 9780894714955
- OCLC:
- 17413751
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