The Quotable Thoreau
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- Paperback
544 pages
- Release Date
31 August 2025
Summary
A comprehensive and authoritative collection of Thoreau quotations on more than 150 subjects, from beauty to wisdom
Few writers are more quotable than Henry David Thoreau. His books, essays, journals, poems, letters, and unpublished manuscripts contain an inexhaustible treasure of epigrams and witticisms, from the famous (‘The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation’) to the obscure (‘Who are the estranged? Two friends explaining’) and the surprising (‘I would exc…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691271033 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0691271038 |
| Author: | Jeffrey S. Cramer, Henry David Thoreau |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 544 |
| Release Date: | 31 August 2025 |
| Weight: | 520g |
| Dimensions: | 54mm x 116mm x 187mm |
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Critics Review
“Recipient of an Umhoefer Prize for Achievement in Humanities, Arts and Humanities Foundation in 2011”
“Selected for “The Best of the Best” Program at the 2012 ALA Annual Conference”
“Henry David Thoreau is one of the most oft-quoted essayists in the American literary canon, and now his sage aphorisms are gathered together in a beautifully compiled and impressively comprehensive volume… . This volume will appeal to both casual, browsing readers and to researchers needing an authoritative source on the words of Thoreau.” * Choice *
”[The Quotable Thoreau] should fall on the shelves of every American.”—Mark Y. Herring, American Reference Books Annual
“The Quotable Thoreau is not meant to be read all at once. It should, rather, be savored bit by bit for maximum engagement, preferably in outdoor settings at various times of the year.”—Jeffrey Mifflin, Historical Journal of Massachusetts
Jeffrey S. Cramer
Henry D. Thoreau (1817–1862) was an American Transcendentalist writer and naturalist who is best known for his book Walden and the essay “Civil Disobedience.”
Jeffrey S. Cramer is the editor of The Portable Thoreau, Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition, and I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau, among other books.
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