The explanatory notes - the essence of an annotated edition - shed some light on the more complex references and turns of phrase. preservationist, anti-business, civil-disobedience mindset, and Thoreau so vivid a protester, so perfect a crank and hermit saint. In addition to the text of WALDEN, this volume includes many "extras": an extensive Thoreau biography, details about the original publication, a lifetime chronology based on Thoreau's journal entries, photos of people and places featured in HDT's life and in Concord, selected woodcuts illustrative of the time, a bibliography, an index, and an annotated version of the essay CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE. Henry David Thoreau (J May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist. The editor had also worked with the writings of Thomas de Quincey, Edgar Allan Poe, and Abraham Lincoln. The Annotated Walden" by Philip Van Doren Stern was first released in 1970. Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed upon, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage. But it is not the less necessary for this for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have. Civil Disobedience, Solitude, and Life Without Principle Henry Th Web2. It is a sort of wooden gun to the people themselves. Illustrated with maps, portraits, photographs, manuscript pages, drawings, and decorations. Life without Principle is an essay written by Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862). Edited, with an introduction, notes, and bibliography by Philip Van Doren Stern. Jacket edges rubbed with some chips and tears, jacket reverse taped at spine head and spine base.
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