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An edition of Walden (1854)

Walden

or, life in the woods

by

  • ★★★★ 4.04 ·
  • 23 Ratings
  • 298 Want to read
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A record of an experiment in simple living, bare of creature comforts, but rich in contemplation.

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The Large Print Book Company
Language
English
Pages
356

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Biography, Homes and haunts, American Authors, Social life and customs, Solitude, Natural history, Wilderness areas, Philosophy, English essays, Wildnerness areas, Classic Literature, Fiction, Essays, Nonfiction, Homes, Manners and customs, Authors, biography, Philosophy, modern, 19th century, Conduct of life, Massachusetts, politics and government, Massachusetts, social life and customs, Natural history, united states, Philosophy of nature, Lakes, Aesthetic realism, Philosophy, american, Literature, collections, Authors, american, Literary, American, English language, Walden (Thoreau, Henry David), Walden or life in the woods (Thoreau), Civil disobedience, Resistance to Government, American literature, Indexes, Juvenile literature, Large type books, Résistance au gouvernement, Alternativbewegung, Gewaltloser Widerstand, On the duty of civil disobedience (Thoreau), Civil disobedience (Thoreau, Henry David), Massachusetts, description and travel, Fiction, general, Loneliness, Mœurs et coutumes, Réserves de la vie sauvage, Sciences naturelles, Écrivains américains, Biographies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, LITERARY CRITICISM, Thoreau, henry david, 1817-1862, Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Homes and haunts -- Massachusetts -- Walden Woods, Natural history -- Massachusetts -- Walden Woods, Wilderness areas -- Massachusetts -- Walden Woods, Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography, Walden Woods (Mass.) -- Biography, Walden Woods (Mass.) -- Social life and customs, Massachusetts -- Walden Woods
People
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Places
Massachusetts, Walden Woods, Walden Woods (Mass.), Walden Pond Region (Middlesex County, Mass.), Walden Pond Region (Middlesex County), Walden
Times
19th century, 1854

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Table of Contents

Economy
Where I lived, and what I lived for
Reading
Sounds
Solitude
Visitors
The bean-field
The village
The ponds
Baker farm
Higher laws
Brute neighbors
House-warming
Former inhabitants and winter visitors
Winter animals
The pond in winter
Spring.

Edition Notes

Accelerated Reader UG 8.7 21 21 6000

Series
World classics in large print, World classics in large print

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
818/.303
Library of Congress
PS3048.A2 C73 2004

The Physical Object

Pagination
356 pages (large print)
Number of pages
356

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27146498M
ISBN 10
1596881607
ISBN 13
9781596881600
OCLC/WorldCat
817581369

Work Description

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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