出版社:中央编译出版社
出版日期:2008-8-1
ISBN:9787802117204
作者:[美] 梭罗(H.D.Thoreau)
页数:389页
章节摘录
版权页:Not long since, a strolling Indian went to sell baskets at thehouse of a well-known lawyer in my neighborhood. "Do youwish to buy any baskets?" he asked. "No, we do not want any,"was the reply. "What!" exclaimed the Indian as he went out thegate, "do you mean to starve us?" Having seen his industriouswhite neighbors so well off that the lawyer had only to weavearguments, and, by some magic, wealth and standing followed,he had said to himself: I will go into business; I will weavebaskets; it is a thing which I can do. Thinking that when hehad made the baskets he would have done his part, and then itwould be the white man's to buy them. He had not discoveredthat it was necessary for him to make it worth the other's whileto buy them, or at least make him think that it was so, or tomake something else which it would be worth his while to buy.I too had woven a kind of basket of a delicate texture, but I hadnot made it worth any one's while to buy them. Yet not theless, in my case, did I think it worth my while to weave them,and instead of studying how to make it worth men's while tobuy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity ofselling them. The life which men praise and regard as successfulis but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at theexpense of the others?
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Ido not to write an ode to dejection but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning,standing on his roost,if only to wake my neighbors up . ——H.D.Thoreau.
内容概要
HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-1862) was an American author, poet, naturalist, historian,philosopher, and leading transcendentalist. Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 2o volumes, among which Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, is best known.Thoreau's philosophy of civil disobedience influenced the political thoughts and actions of such later figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
书籍目录
ECONOMYCOMPLEMENTAL VERSESFORREADINGSOUNDSSOLITUDEVISITORSTHE BEANFIELDTHE VILLAGETHE PONDSBAKER FARMHIGHER LAWSBRUTE NEIGHBORSHOUSE-WARMINGFORMER INHABITANTS AND WINTERVISITORSWINTER ANIMALSTHE POND IN WINTERSPRINGCONCLUSION
编辑推荐
《瓦尔登湖(英文版)》:Walden or, Life in the Woods, published in i854, itdetails Thoreau's experiences over the course of twoyears in a cabin he built near Walden Pond, amidstwoodland owned by his friend and mentor RalphWaldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts. Simple living and self-sufficiency were Thoreau'sother goals, and the whole project was inspired bytranscendentalist philosophy, a central theme of theAmerican Romantic Period. As Thoreau made clearin his book, his cabin was not in wilderness but at theedge of town, not far from his family home.
作者简介
In 1845 Thoreau leased some land owned by his friend and mentor,Ralph Waldo Emerson on Walden Pond near Concord,Massachusetts,and lived in a cabin on it for two years,two months,and two days.The experience gave Thoreau the chance to make keen observations on the world around him.The result became an American classic:Walden,which explores not only the soul of the searching Thoreau,but defines what it means to be a truly free person,and distills the essence of our relationship of Nature.
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