Letters to a Spiritual Seeker

The writing of Henry David Thoreau is as full of life today as it was when he published Walden one hundred years ago. In seeking to understand nature, Thoreau sought to lead a fresh, simple life with God. In 1848 a seeker named Harrison Blake, yearning for a spiritual life of his own, asked the then-fledgling writer for guidance. The fifty letters that ensued, collected here for the first time in their own volume by Thoreau specialist Bradley P. Dean, are by turns earnest, oracular, witty, playful, practical-- and deeply insightful and inspiring, as one would expect from America's best prose stylist and great moral philosopher.

Author: Henry David Thoreau
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 11/17/2005
Pages: 270
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.48w x 0.68d
ISBN: 9780393327564

About the Author
Dean, Bradley P.: - Bradley P. Dean, an independent scholar living in West Peterborough, New Hampshire, has written extensively on Thoreau's life and writings, and has edited two of Thoreau's previously unpublished booklength manuscripts.