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 ; 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, 2015
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- 978-0-14-039044-5Copied ISBN!
Walden ou La vie dans les bois : extraits
French language
Published March 17, 2016 by Librio.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-290-12055-2Copied ISBN!
Walden ou la vie dans les bois Walden or life in the woods
French language
Published March 17, 1992
- ISBN:
- 978-2-7007-0278-1Copied ISBN!
Walden - Ovvero Vita nei boschi
Italian language
Published March 10, 1988
- ISBN:
- 978-88-17-16654-6Copied ISBN!
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