# Event Details - **Event Name**: Lewis Hyde presents "The Essays of Henry David Thoreau" - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 13 Nov, 2025 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 13 Nov, 2025 at 08:00 pm - **Event Description**: A definitive collection of Henry David Thoreau’s major essays, annotated and introduced by Lewis Hyde.About this EventIf you would prefer to buy your ticket by phone, you may call Wellesley Books at 781-431-1160.About ticketing:Admission to the event is $5.To purchase the book with your admission, choose Admission + Book and we will waive your admission fee.If you decide to purchase the book at the event, we will discount your book purchase by $5.Please note that you must purchase your copy of the book from Wellesley Books in order to have the author sign it at the event.Please also note that we cannot issue ticket refunds within 48 hours of the event.ABOUT THE BOOKDiverging from the long-standing custom of separating Thoreau’s politics from his interest in nature, renowned author Lewis Hyde brings together essays that highlight the ways in which these two strands of thought were intertwined. Here, natural history begins not with fish and birds, but with a dismissal of the political world, and condemnation of slavery concludes with a meditation on the water lilies blooming on the Concord River.This definitive edition includes Thoreau’s most famous essays, “Civil Disobedience” and “Walking,” along with lesser-known masterpieces such as “Wild Apples,” “The Last Days of John Brown,” and an account of Thoreau’s 1846 journey into the Maine wilderness to climb Mount Katahdin—an essay that ends on a unique note of sublimity and terror in the face of raw nature. While Thoreau’s ideal reader was expected to be politically engaged in current affairs and well versed in Greek, Latin, poetry, and travel narrative, Hyde’s inviting annotations clarify many of Thoreau’s references and recreate the contemporary context of the day, when the nation’s westward expansion was bringing to a head the racial tensions that would result in the Civil War.Hyde deems Thoreau’s writing prophetic because “the prophet speaks of things that will be true in the future because they are true in all time.” Thoreau’s revelatory writing coupled with the luminous insights from Hyde—“one of our country’s greatest public thinkers” (Lawrence Weschler)—make The Essays of Henry David Thoreau essential reading at a moment in our nation’s history when his subversiveness, foresight, and lyricism are badly neededABOUT THE EDITORLewis Hyde is a poet, essayist, translator, and cultural critic. A MacArthur Fellow and renowned author, his previous books include The Gift, Trickster Makes This World, and A Primer for Forgetting. Hyde is a trustee of MacDowell and a founding director of Creative Capital. He was previously the director of undergraduate creative writing at Harvard University and taught writing and American literature for many years at Kenyon College. Now retired, he and his wife, the writer Patricia Vigderman, live in Cambridge, Massachusetts.(Photo credit Anna Schuleit Haber)ABOUT THE INTERLOCUTORLawrence Rosenwald is Anne Pierce Rogers Professor of English Emeritus at Wellesley College, where he taught from 1980 to 2022. He taught in English and Comparative Literature, in Theatre Studies, in Music, and in Peace & Justice Studies. He has written about diaries, translation, words and music, literary multilingualism, and the relations between pacifism and literature, and has published translations of both poetry and prose from German, French, Latin, Italian, and Yiddish. He has also written and performed some fifty verse narratives for early opera and early music theater, mostly at the Amherst Early Music Festival but also with the Texas Early Music Project, Ensemble Calextone, Artek, Tenet, and Voices of Music.Especially pertinent to his conversation with Lewis Hyde are his essay on Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" published in the Oxford Historical Companion to Henry David Thoreau; his several essays on war tax resistance; his Library of American anthology War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing; and his current project, Portrait of a Pacifist Critic, a study of pacifism and literature. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/wellesley/lewis-hyde-presents-the-essays-of-henry-david-thoreau/100001653258644109 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, music-festivals, festivals, music, health-wellness, theatre, entertainment, meditation - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Flewis-hyde-presents-the-essays-of-henry-david-thoreau-tickets-1653258644109 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 33.33, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Wellesley - **state**: MA - **country**: United States - **location**: Wellesley Books - **lat**: 42.295765 - **long**: -71.297326 - **full address**: Wellesley Books, 82 Central Street, Wellesley, United States ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: Wellesley Books (https://allevents.in/org/wellesley-books/17729206) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/0e404de266a1b5a40e9336879746c32da6b8ba188e7520c9e1b45efc1ce51fdc-rimg-w1200-h600-dcaf5056-gmir.jpg?v=1762790649 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/f81d5f7abe2998a24e9f1aead2f743c729e99bab712ad0207e7aec6bbd9255ff-rimg-w400-h400-dc40423f-gmir.jpg?v=1762790649 ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? 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