Walden and other writings of Henry David Thoreau (Modern library of the world's best books)
by Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Summary
Presents Thoreau's reflections on his experience living alone in the woods surrounding Walden Pond as well as his philosophy concerning man's need to reevaluate life and commune with nature. Full description
Summary: |
Presents Thoreau's reflections on his experience living alone in the woods surrounding Walden Pond as well as his philosophy concerning man's need to reevaluate life and commune with nature. |
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Item Description: |
Series statement from jacket. |
Physical Description: |
xii, 769 pages ; 20 cm. Also issued online. |
ISBN: |
0679600043 9780679600046 |
Author Notes: |
In 1845, Thoreau began the living experiment for which he is most famous. During his two years and two months in the shack beside the New England pond, he wrote his first important work, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), was arrested for refusing to pay his poll tax to a government that supported slavery (recorded in "Civil Disobedience") and gathered the material for his masterpiece, Walden (1854). He spent the rest of his life writing and lecturing and died, relatively unappreciated, in 1862. |