An edition of Walden (1854)

Walden, or, Life in the woods

and, On the duty of civil disobedience

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An edition of Walden (1854)

Walden, or, Life in the woods

and, On the duty of civil disobedience

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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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Pocket Books
Language
English
Pages
455

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1965, Perennial Library, Harper Perennial
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 454-455).
Walden originally published 1845; Civil disobedience 1849.
Includes also six poems: Sic vita, Winter memories, To the maiden in the east, Smoke, Mist, and Inspiration.

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Series
Enriched classic, Enriched classics series.
Other Titles
Life in the woods, Civil disobedience.

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Dewey Decimal Class
818/.303
Library of Congress
PS3048 .A1 2004c

The Physical Object

Pagination
xx, 455 p. ;
Number of pages
455

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3380021M
ISBN 10
0743487729
LCCN
2004541365
Library Thing
7792054
Goodreads
2535867

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