Walden & Duty of Civil Disobedience - Softcover

Thoreau, Henry David

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9781414505398: Walden & Duty of Civil Disobedience

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ISBN 10: 1414505396 ISBN 13: 9781414505398

Publisher: Pavilion Press, 2003

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Illustrated. This book established the credentials of Thoreau to forever speak for America's love of natural beauty. Walden is about a man, a pond, and the great woods of the country By Henry Thoreau.

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About the Author:

Henry David Thoreau is the orginal star of American writing for nature. His time spent in solitude at Walden Pond ignited his writing and a nation's interest in his observations. He is considered part of the Transcendental movement along with Emerson and others. His works remain relevant and popular.

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Thoreau's famous book about two years in a Massachusetts cabin, while partly a nature study, is primarily about how to live and a critique of how most people go about it. Narrator Robin Field's expressiveness is excellent, his pacing fine, his understanding of the text clear. His reading of the famous, and still radical, essay on civil disobedience is direct and down-to-earth, keeping all Thoreau's good qualities. However, in his reading of WALDEN, his Thoreau sounds alternately self-righteous and whiny or pompously elevated and "poetic." Field intones, as if lecturing or preaching, in an affectedly rhetorical manner. It's true that Thoreau can be preachy and priggish, but in WALDEN, Field makes him seem so even when he isn't. W.M. � AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine

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