Thoreau: A Week, Walden, Maine Woods, Cape Cod
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This Library of America edition collects for the first time in one
volume the four full-length works in which Henry David Thoreau
combined his poetic sensibility, classical learning, philosophical
austerity, and Yankee love of practical detail into literary
masterpieces on humanity's communion with nature. A Week on the
Concord and Merrimack Rivers is based on a boat trip Thoreau took
with his brother in 1839 from Concord, Massachusetts, to Concord,
New Hampshire. Ten years in the writing (it was the book he retired
to Walden to work on) and incorporating essays, passages from his
journal, and some of his best poems, it is a superbly crafted
achievement, its texture enriched by the idealism of the
Transcendentalists, the delighted wordplay of an imaginative
linguist, the individualism of a young America, and the earthiness
of a lover of nature. Walden is a personal declaration of
independence, a social experiment, and a voyage of spiritual
discovery, set within the seasonal cycle of a year's Life in the
Woods. Simplify, simplify is the beat of its more distant
drummer--to abandon waste and illusion, to get to the bottom of
life's essential needs, and to practice a new economy for humane
living. Its witty and pointed rhetoric brings together language and
nature, the human and nonhuman in unusual conjunctions that
resonate with symbolic meanings. A manual of self-reliance as well
as a masterpiece of style, it is one of the most fervently loved
classics of American literature. The Maine Woods is an account of
three trips taken by boat and canoe in 1846, 1853, and 1857 through
an unexplored interior bypassed by westward expansion. It describes
the virgin rivers and forests of Maine, the customs of woodsmen and
Indian guides, the hunting of moose, and the effects of the timber
industry and encroaching settlement. An early and eloquent plea for
conservation by a farsighted naturalist, its close observation of
the American wild becomes an examination of the motives which carry
men into the wilderness. Cape Cod is the bleakest of Thoreau's
works, resembling Melville's prose in its vision of the titanic
indifference of nature. Cape Cod appears as both ocean and desert,
a vast expanse of shipwrecks and barren soil, peopled by hardy,
weathered inhabitants who seem survivors from the age of the first
Pilgrims. Based upon his own visits and upon accounts from the
earliest times, it is an unsentimental study of human endurance in
the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay.
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