Walden and Other Writings
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780394604213 (0394604210)
Publish date: July 12th 1977
Publisher: Modern Library
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
Essays,
Literature,
American,
Environment,
Nature,
Philosophy,
Poetry
The introduction to the edition I read quoted American philosopher and Harvard professor Stanley Cavell as saying "Emerson and Thoreau... are the founding philosophers of America" and comparable in complexity to Plato. As you can tell from my disparate ratings below, I nevertheless found reading Tho...