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"Produced around the country under the American Playwrights Theatre program, this drama opens with Thoreau in jail for refusing to pay taxes to a government conducting a war of aggression in Mexico, at midpoint shows Emerson visiting him, and ends on the morning of his release. Scenes portray his return from Harvard where he idolized Emerson, his attempt to establish a transcendentalist school, his career as a handyman and tutor in Emerson's household, his romance and his friendship with an illiterate cellmate. The end is a grotesque dream in which the characters take up guises in a mortal assault on Mexico"--Publisher's website.

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Author

Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee

Publisher

Bantam Books (Mm)

Published

1970

Language

EN

ISBN

9780809012237

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Philosophy, History

Rating

3.78 / 5 (78 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14