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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This volume is so slim, it scarcely counts as a book. But what a book! Thoreau is at his lyrical best here; even better than in Walden. I only wish I had found it a couple of weeks earlier, when the fall colors were at a higher pitch. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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Originally delivered as a lecture shortly before the writer's own death, Henry David Thoreau's classic "Autumnal Tints" is an ode to autumn not as the season of death and decay, but of ripeness, fullness, and maturity. It is perhaps the best piece ever written on the subject of the fall color of the changing leaves. Thoreau hoped one day to turn it into an illustrated book called "October, or Autumnal Tints."Thoreau's astute meditations are framed by a biographical essay by acclaimed scholar Robert D. Richardson that delves into the events and relationships influencing Thoreau's philosophy. Sensuous watercolors by Lincoln Perry bring to life the fall colors described so ecstatically by Thoreau, allowing longtime Thoreau fans and leaf-peepers alike to feel as though they are walking among the falling leaves alongside one of our best observers of the natural world. No library descriptions found. |
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