Walden - Softcover

Thoreau, Henry David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1514264579 ISBN 13: 9781514264577

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

In 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved into his cabin at Walden Pond to conduct his living experiment on how to simplify one's life. What came out of it was one of the most influential books of the 19th century. This edition of Henry David Thoreau's 1854 classic, Walden, is accompanied by an essay written by Virginia Woolf in 1917. The essay, published in the Times Literary Supplement in London on the 100th anniversary of Thoreau's birth, is an insightful, thoughtful and intelligent tribute to Thoreau and his work. Whether you are a fan of Thoreau, Woolf or both, you will thoroughly enjoy and treasure this special edition of Walden.

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From the Back Cover

Nature was a form of religion for naturalist, essayist, and early environmentalist Henry David Thoreau (1817 62). In communing with the natural world, he wished to "live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and learn what it had to teach." Toward that end Thoreau built a cabin in the spring of 1845 on the shores of Walden Pond on land owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson outside Concord, Massachusetts. There he observed nature, farmed, built fences, surveyed, and wrote in his journal.
One product of his two-year sojourn was this book a great classic of American letters. Interwoven with accounts of Thoreau's daily life (he received visitors and almost daily walked into Concord) are mediations on human existence, society, government, and other topics, expressed with wisdom and beauty of style.
Walden offers abundant evidence of Thoreau's ability to begin with observations on a mundane incident or the minutiae of nature and then develop these observations into profound ruminations on the most fundamental human concerns. Credited with influencing Tolstoy, Gandhi, and other thinkers, the volume remains a masterpiece of philosophical reflection."

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1514264579
• ISBN 13: 9781514264577
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 132