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An edition of Walden (1854)

Walden LP

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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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HarperCollins
Language
English
Pages
400

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Walden
2017, Penguin Random House
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Walden
2014, Standard Ebooks
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Walden
2005, ICON Classics
electronic resource / in English - Webster's German Thesaurus ed. for ESL, EFL, ELP, TOEFL, TOEIC and AP test preparation.
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Walden
2005, ICON Classics
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Walden
2005, ICON Classics
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Cover of: Walden
Walden
2005, ICON Classics
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Cover of: Walden
Walden
2005, ICON Classics
electronic resource / in English - Webster's French Thesaurus ed. for ESL, EFL, ELP, TOEFL, TOEIC and AP test preparation.
Cover of: Walden LP
Walden LP
April 1, 2000, HarperCollins
in English
Cover of: Walden, or, Life in the woods
Walden, or, Life in the woods
1995, Dover Publications
Paperback in English
Cover of: Walden and Civil Disobedience (A Norton Critical Edition)
Walden and Civil Disobedience (A Norton Critical Edition)
1966, W.W. Norton and Company, W. W. Norton
Cover of: Walden
Walden: or, Life in the woods, and On the duty of civil disobedience
1965, Perennial Library, Harper Perennial
in English
Cover of: Walden.
Walden.
1880, Houghton, Osgood

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"WHEN I WROTE the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only."

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OL7285539M
ISBN 10
0060955724
ISBN 13
9780060955724
OCLC/WorldCat
43798274

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