Funny-Ass Thoreau

By:

Henry David Thoreau

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Regeneration

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Description

America's ur-nonconformist, the so-called "hermit" of Walden Pond, was a comic at heart. Amid the transcendental musings of his best known works and the nature descriptions in his voluminous journal, Thoreau was constantly tossing off jokes, whipping out witticisms, and making fun of himself and others. Released just in time for the bicentennial of his birth, Funny-Ass Thoreau presents the famous writer in marvelous display of his most underappreciated quality: a killer sense of humor. Here's Henry in his own words as he tries to wrangle a pig, pees in the woods, loses a tooth, laughs at Emerson shooing off his own cow, observes the slippery slapstick of snowmelt and mud in the Concord streets, elaborates on his dislike of other men's bowels, and more. Included in this volume is Thoreau's posthumously-published lecture "Getting a Living," which can (and should be) read as a stand-up philosophy routine bristling with one-liners. (Edited & with an introduction by M. Allen Cunningham)

Author Biography:

M. Allen Cunningham is the cofounder of the cultural commentary blog SoulShelter.com. His stories have appeared in many literary magazines including Glimmer Train and The Kenyon Review and have twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He is the author of Date of Disappearance, The Flickering Page, The Green Age of Asher Witherow, The Honorable Obscurity Handbook, Lost Son, and Partisans. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Release date Australia

November 7th, 2017

Author

Henry David Thoreau

Series

Regeneration

Contributors

Edited by M Allen Cunningham
Introduction by M Allen Cunningham

Pages

180

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Dimensions

137x213x15

ISBN-13

9780989302388

Product ID

26245366

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