Walden (; first published in 1854 as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is a book by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon the author's simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, …
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Walden (; first published in 1854 as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is a book by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon the author's simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and—to some degree—a manual for self-reliance.Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau makes precise scientific observations of nature as well as metaphorical and poetic uses of natural phenomena. He identifies many plants and animals by both their popular and scientific names, records in detail the color and clarity of different bodies of water, precisely dates and describes the freezing and thawing of the pond, and recounts his experiments to measure the depth and shape of the bottom of the supposedly "bottomless" Walden Pond.
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- LibraryThing key:
- 2470535
- BNF ID:
- 12152763z
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Walden
Paperback, 325 pages
German language
Published 2017 by Reclam-Verlag.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-15-020473-3Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 965629469
- Goodreads:
- 53138890
Walden
Hardcover, 360 pages
English language
Published Feb. 19, 2004 by Collector's Library.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-904633-45-7Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 55504930
- Goodreads:
- 2534841
Walden and other writings
English language
Published March 17, 1981
- ISBN:
- 978-0-553-21246-4Copied ISBN!
Walden and Civil Disobedience
English language
Published March 17, 2004
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7434-8772-6Copied ISBN!
Walden ; and, Civil disobedience
English language
Published March 17, 2013
- ISBN:
- 978-0-00-792529-2Copied ISBN!
Walden And Civil Disobedience
English language
Published March 17, 2004
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4176-3525-2Copied ISBN!
Walden ; and, Civil disobedience
English language
Published March 17, 2005
- ISBN:
- 978-1-59308-208-6Copied ISBN!
Walden and Civil Disobedience
English language
Published March 17, 2015
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-039044-5Copied ISBN!
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