Walden
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Tags: Classics, Novel, Philosophy
ISBN:046087635X
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A man throws off the burdens of modern society to live for a year in the woods. Walden is Henry David Thoreau's account of a radical experiment in living. Outside of the complications of civilization, Thoreau is inspired to reflect on human nature and society. Walden is the story of a full year of simple, self-sufficient existence in Nature, and a timeless record of American ideals.
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About the Author
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was a prolific author, noted naturalist, and key figure in the American Literary Renaissance of the nineteenth century. Although he held a more or less steady job at his family's pencil factory in Concord, Massachusetts, Thoreau established himself as one of the nation's foremost free-thinkers and individualists through such essays and other works as Walden, Civil Disobedience, and A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Throughout his writing, Thoreau's message remains one of the importance of casting off the contradictions and complications of modern society in favor of honest reflection, clean living, and connection with the natural world.
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When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two ...
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