October, Or Autumnal Tints

October, Or Autumnal Tints

Author: Henry David Thoreau

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2012-09-03

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 0393081885

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"A gorgeous edition" (Boston Globe) of Thoreau's classic work, enhanced with an illuminating essay and beautiful watercolors.


Autumnal Tints

Autumnal Tints

Author: Henry David Thoreau

Publisher: Applewood Books

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 65

ISBN-13: 155709442X

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Two institutions of New England, our fall colors and Henry David Thoreau, are brought together in this posthumously published rumination on Nature. Autumnal Tints was originally published in the October 1862 Atlantic Monthly.


Wild Apples

Wild Apples

Author: Henry David Thoreau

Publisher: Applewood Books

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 49

ISBN-13: 1557091307

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A meditation on apples begins with a short history of the apple tree, tracing its path from ancient Greece to America. Thoreau saw the apple as a perfect mirror of man and eloquently lamented where they both were heading.


A Woman of the World

A Woman of the World

Author: Genie Chipps

Publisher: Berkley

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780425199138

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Inspired by the life of famed photographer Margaret Bourke-White, Henderson paints a dazzling portrait of a woman whose daring feats inspire a nation in this work set against the epic background of World War II. Original.


Autumn Journal

Autumn Journal

Author: Louis MacNeice

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 83

ISBN-13: 9780571177769

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Written between August and December 1938, this poem is a record of MacNeice's emotional and intellectual experience during those months. The trivia of everyday living is set against events in the world outside - the settlement in Munich and slow defeat in Spain.


Schulz and Peanuts

Schulz and Peanuts

Author: David Michaelis

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2008-10-07

Total Pages: 674

ISBN-13: 0060937998

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Charles M. Schulz, the most widely syndicated and beloved cartoonist of all time, is also one of the least understood figures in American culture. Now, acclaimed biographer David Michaelis gives us the first full-length biography of the brilliant, unseen man behind Peanuts: at once a creation story, a portrait of a native genius, and a chronicle contrasting the private man with the central role he played in shaping the national imagination. Schulz and Peanuts is the definitive epic biography of an American icon and the unforgettable characters he created.


Henry David Thoreau: Collected Essays and Poems (LOA #124)

Henry David Thoreau: Collected Essays and Poems (LOA #124)

Author: Henry David Thoreau

Publisher:

Published: 2001-04-23

Total Pages: 744

ISBN-13:

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A collection of essential writings features Thoreau's poetry and essays on nature, materialism, conformity, and politics; including such works as "Slavery in Massachusetts," "Civil Disobedience," "A Winter Walk," and "Life Without Principle."