瓦尔登湖 Everyman's Library Classics：Walden

基本信息

Series:Everyman's Library Classics Series

Format:Hardback 328 pages

Publisher:Random House USA Inc

Imprint:Random House USA Inc

ISBN:9780679418962

Published:11 Jan 1993

Weight:465g

Dimensions:211 x 132 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

《瓦尔登湖》语语惊人、字字闪光、沁人心脾、动我衷肠。到了夜深人静、万籁无声之时，此书毫不晦涩、清澈见底，吟诵之下，不禁为之神往了。——徐迟

凭这一本书……梭罗就超过了我们所拥有的一切。——罗伯特•弗洛斯特

当我初读这本书时，我幸福地感到，我对它的喜爱超过了任何诗歌。——苇岸

一部自然与人的心灵探索之作；一部自力更生过简单生活的指南；一本经典的书。——梭罗研究专家哈丁

《瓦尔登湖》用澄澈的思想和文字告诉我们“物质极简、灵魂丰盈”的生活真谛。梭罗远离喧嚣，在瓦尔登诗意秀美的四季景色中，过着极简的生活，不断地思考如何生活才能离自己的心灵更近。他用文字树立了一根真实世界的标尺，让后世就知道，假相和幻景屡屡泛起的洪流到底多深。

By virtue of its casual, off-handedly brilliant wisdom and the easy splendor of its nature writing, Thoreau's account of his adventure in self-reliance on the shores of a pond in Massachusetts is one of the signposts by which the modern mind has located itself in an increasingly bewildering world. Deeply sane, invigorating in its awareness of humanity's place in the moral and natural order, Walden represents the progressive spirit of nineteenth-century America at its eloquent best.

作者简介

亨利·戴维·梭罗（1817—1862），19世纪美国超验主义作家、哲学家。1837年毕业于哈佛大学，回到家乡以教书为业，1841年后转为写作。曾协助爱默生编辑评论季刊《日晷》，一生支持废奴运动。他选择了心灵的自由和闲适，强调亲近自然，追求“简单些，再简单些”的质朴生活，提倡短暂人生因思想丰盈而臻于完善。著作包括《瓦尔登湖》《非暴力抵制》《河上一周》等。

Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12, 1817, in Concord, Massachusetts. His father worked successively as a farmer, a grocer, and a manufacturer of pencils, and the family was frequently in difficult financial straits. After studying locally, Thoreau won admission to Harvard. When Ralph Waldo Emerson moved to Concord in 1835, Thoreau formed a close relationship with him (although the friendship would later give way to mutual criticism) and with others associated with the Transcendentalist group, including Margaret Fuller, Orestes Brownson, Bronson Alcott, Jones Very, and Theodore Parker. He worked in his father's pencil business while keeping the journals that would become his life's work, running to millions of words.

Thoreau took over the Concord Academy for several years, where he taught foreign languages and science, before closing the school in 1841. By now he was regularly publishing poems and essays in The Dial. For a time he worked in Emerson's household as a handyman, and in 1845 he built a cabin on some property of Emerson's at Walden Pond, staying for a little over two years: 'My purpose in going to Walden Pond was not to live cheaply nor to live dearly there, but to transact some private business with the fewest obstacles.' (During this time he maintained an active social life in Concord.) He spent a night in jail in 1846 as a protest against slavery, and later explained his motives in the essay 'Civil Disobedience' (1849).

Thoreau--who at this time was supporting himself as a surveyor--became increasingly involved in the Abolitionist movement and began to work for the Underground Railroad, sheltering escaped slaves en route to Canada.

Walden, on which he had been working ever since his residence at the pond, went through multiple revisions before he considered it ready for publication. This was intended as the fullest expression of his philosophy: 'Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.' It was published in 1854 and proved unexpectedly successful.

Thoreau met John Brown in 1857, and following Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry delivered 'A Plea for Captain John Brown' in his defense: 'I know that the mass of my countrymen think that the only righteous use that can be made of Sharpe's rifles and revolvers is to fight duels with them, when we are insulted by other nations, or to hunt Indians, or shoot fugitive slaves with them, or the like. I think that for once the Sharpe's rifles and the revolvers were employed in a righteous cause.' For many years Thoreau had been at work on a projected study of American Indians, compiling thousands of pages of notes and extracts, and in 1861 he traveled to Minnesota, where he visited the Lower Sioux Agency at Redwood. By this time, however, he had contracted tuberculosis and it became clear that he would not live long; he died on May 6, 1862. His later travel writings, The Maine Woods (1864) and Cape Cod (1865), were published posthumously.

系列简介

Everyman's Library Classics收录的美国主要小说家、诗人、学者和散文家作品的专业版本以系列平装书的形式出版。每卷都有一位杰出的作家撰写序言，其中还包括作者的生平和职业年表、文章和注释。

For the first time, the authoritative editions of works by major American novelists, poets, scholars, and essayists collected in the hardcover volumes of The Library of America are being published singly in a series of handsome paperback books. A distinguished writer has contributed an introduction for each volume, which also includes a chronology of the author's life and career, an essay on the text, and notes.