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					商品詳情      書名:Walden and Civil Disobedience瓦爾登湖及論公民的不服從義務
難度:Lexile藍思閱讀指數1340
作者:Henry David Thoreau亨利·戴維·梭羅
齣版社名稱: Signet Classics
齣版時間:2012
語種:英文 
ISBN:9780451532169
商品尺寸:18.3 x 10.4 x 2.8 cm
包裝:簡裝
頁數:320
         編輯推薦      Walden and Civil Disobedience《瓦爾登湖及論公民的不服從義務》包括兩部分。Walden又譯為《湖濱散記》,是美國作傢梭羅隱居瓦爾登湖兩年期間所寫下的隨筆作品。由於梭羅的思想深受艾默生影響,其作品也展現齣超驗主義以及自然主義的特點。作品文風樸實自然,語言簡練,從中我們可以感受到作者細膩的情感和怡然自得、淡泊名利的生活態度。本英文原版是150周年紀念版,由美國詩人W. S. Merwin作序,美國作傢、普林斯頓大學教授William Howarth寫後記。體積輕巧,便於攜帶,方便隨時隨地閱讀。
First published in 1854, Walden details Thoreau’s experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts. The book compresses the time into a single calendar year and uses passages of four seasons to symbolize human development. By immersing himself in nature, Thoreau hoped to gain a more objective understanding of society through personal introspection. Simple living and self-sufficiency were Thoreau’s other goals, and the whole project was inspired by transcendentalist philosophy, a central theme of the American Romantic Period.
Walden’s original publisher releases an annotated edition to celebrate the book’s 150th anniversary. With an Introduction by W.S. Merwin and an Afterword by Will Howarth
Reviews:
Walden is a difficult book to read for three reasons: First, it was written in an older prose, which uses surgically precise language, extended, allegorical metaphors, long and complex paragraphs and sentences, and vivid, detailed, and insightful descriptions. Thoreau does not hesitate to use metaphors, allusions, understatement, hyperbole, personification, irony, satire, metonymy, synecdoche, and oxymorons, and he can shift from a scientific to a transcendental point of view in mid-sentence. Second, its logic is based on a different understanding of life, quite contrary to what most people would call common sense. Ironically, this logic is based on what most people say they believe. Thoreau, recognizing this, fills Walden with sarcasm, paradoxes, and double entendres. He likes to tease, challenge, and even fool his readers. And third, quite often any words would be inadequate at expressing many of Thoreau’s non-verbal insights into truth. Thoreau must use non-literal language to express these notions, and the reader must reach out to understand.  — Ken Kifer          內容推薦      Walden 《瓦爾登湖》,世界自然主義文學經典著作,梭羅在書中詳盡地描述瞭他在瓦爾登湖湖畔一片再生林中度過兩年又兩月的生活以及期間他的許多思考。作者無微不至地描述兩年多的湖畔獨居生活:大至四季交替造成的景色變化,小到兩隻螞蟻的爭鬥,無不栩栩如生地再現於梭羅的生花妙筆之下,並且描寫也不流於錶淺,而是有著博物學傢的精確。
Civil Disobedience《論公民不服從的義務》,梭羅重要的政治隨筆,首次發錶於1849年。在文章中,梭羅主張,人民不應允許政府統治他們的良心或使之萎縮,且人民有義務避免這樣的默許,防止政府把他們變成不正義的行動者。對奴隸製和墨西哥-美國戰爭的厭惡,也是梭羅寫作本文的原因。
Henry David Thoreau’s masterwork Walden is a collection of his reflections on life and society. In 1845, Thoreau moved to a cabin that he built with his own hands along the shores of Walden Pond in Massachusetts. Shedding the trivial ties that he felt bound much of humanity, Thoreau reaped from the land both physically and mentally, and pursued truth in the quiet of nature. In Walden, he explains how separating oneself from the world of men can truly awaken the sleeping self. Thoreau holds fast to the notion that you have not truly existed until you adopt such a lifestyle—and only then can you reenter society, as an enlightened being.
These simple but profound musings—as well as “Civil Disobedience,” his protest against the government’s interference with civil liberty—have inspired many to embrace his philosophy of individualism and love of nature. More than a century and a half later, his message is more timely than ever.         作者簡介      Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1817. He graduated from Harvard in 1837, the same year he began his lifelong Journal. Inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thoreau became a key member of the Transcendentalist movement that included Margaret Fuller and Bronson Alcott. The Transcendentalists' faith in nature was tested by Thoreau between 1845 and 1847 when he lived for twenty-six months in a homemade hut at Walden Pond. While living at Walden, Thoreau worked on the two books published during his lifetime: Walden (1854) and A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849). Several of his other works, including The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, and Excursions, were published posthumously. Thoreau died in Concord, at the age of forty-four, in 1862.
W.S. Merwin has published many highly regarded books of poems, for which he has received a number of distinguished awards—the Pulitzer Prize, Bollingen Award, Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets and the Governor's Award for Literature of the state of Hawaii among them. He has translated widely from many languages, and his versions of classics such as The Poem of the Cid and The Song of Roland are standards.
William Howarth is Professor Emeritus of English at Princeton University. His thirteen books on literature and history include The Book of Concord: Thoreau's Life as a Writer,Walking with Thoreau, and The John McPhee Reader. As "Dana Hand" he collaborates with Anne Matthews on fiction and film, and as co-publishers of Scarlet Oak Press.         目錄      Introduction 
Walden: or, Life in the Woods 
  1. Economy 
  2. Where I Lived, and What I Lived for 
  3. Reading 
  4. Sounds 
  5. Solitude 
  6. Visitors 
  7. The Bean-Field 
  8. The Village 
  9. The Ponds 
 10. Baker Farm 
 11. Higher Laws 
 12. Brute Neighbors 
 13. House-Warming 
 14. Former Inhabitants, and Winter Visitors 
 15. Winter Animals 
 16. The Pond in Winter 
 17. Spring 
 18. Conclusion 
Civil Disobedience 
Poems 
  Sic Vita 
  Winter Memories 
  To the Maiden in the East 
  Smoke
  Mist
  Inspiration
Afterword
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