Walden

150th Anniversary Edition

Henry David Thoreau, J. Lyndon Shanley, J. Shanley

• Éditeur: Princeton University Press
• Année: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781400880799
• Sujet: Literatura
• Sous-sujet: Colecciones literarias norteamericanas

One of the most influential and compelling books in American literature, Walden is a vivid account of the years that Henry D. Thoreau spent alone in a secluded cabin at Walden Pond. This edition--introduced by noted American writer John Updike--celebrates the perennial importance of a classic work, originally published in 1854. Much of Walden's material is derived from Thoreau's journals and contains such engaging pieces from the lively "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For" and "Brute Neighbors" to the serene "Reading" and "The Pond in the Winter." Other famous sections involve Thoreau's visits with a Canadian woodcutter and with an Irish family, a trip to Concord, and a description of his bean field. This is the complete and authoritative text of Walden--as close to Thoreau's original intention as all available evidence allows.
This is the authoritative text of Walden and the ideal presentation of Thoreau's great document of social criticism and dissent.

Index

Achilles, ant as, 229

Achilles’ reproof, 144

Adam, 179; and Eve, first shelter of, 28; contemplating his virtue, 331; ennui old as, 10; men esteem truth existent before, 97

Adam’s grandmother ways, 209

Admetus, 70

advice of old to young, 9

Æolian music, 131

Æschylus, 100, 103

Æsculapius, 139

Africa, Southern, hunters in, 320

[Agassiz, Louis], distinguished naturalist, 225

[Alcott, Amos Bronson], 268-70; as Great Expecter, 270; as peddler, 268; blue-robed man, 269; true friend of man, 269

Aldebaran, 88

alertness, 17-18. See also awakeness

Alexander, 298; carried Iliad, 102

Algonquins, cited, 212

Alms House Farm, 257

almshouse, visitors from, 151

Altair, 88

America, 324; history compared to ant war, 230; imitative in fashions, 25; Irish coming to, 205

animal heat, 12-13

animal in men, 219

animal man, Therien as, 146

animals, farm, 56-57; in spring, 302

ANIMALS, WINTER, 271-81

ant war, 228-32

Antaeus, 155

Apios tuberosa, 239

appetite, 218. See also diet

apples, wild, gathered, 238

apple-trees, wild, 276

Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, 95

Arcadia, 57

architects, 46

architecture, organic, 47-48

art, moral, 90

Artist who made the world, 306

artist of Kouroo, 326-27

Assyria, learned societies of, gone, 331

Astor House, 140

auction, 67

Augean stables, 5

Aurora, 36, 88, 138; children of, 89

autumn, 240; fruit in, 238; waterfowl in, 233-37

awakeness, 17-18, 90, 333

awakening, 84, 89-90, 127; need for, 325

axe, borrowed, 40-42; lost in pond, 178; new helve in, 251-52

Babylon, bricks of, 241

Baker, Gilian, 232

BAKER FARM, 201-09

Baker Farm, 203; hounds at, 278; poem about quoted, 203, 204, 208; rain at, 203

Baker’s barn, fi...