Walden, Or, Life in the Woods Contributor(s): Thoreau, Henry David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0486284956 ISBN-13: 9780486284958 Publisher: Dover Publications OUR PRICE: $7.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1995 Annotation: One of the great books of American letters and a masterpiece of reflective philosophizing. Accounts of Thoreau's daily life on the shores of Walden Pond outside Concord, Massachusetts, are interwoven with musings on the virtues of self-reliance and individual freedom, on society, government, and other topics. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Nature | Essays - Literary Collections | American - General |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 94041329 |
Lexile Measure: 1300 |
Series: Dover Thrift Editions |
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.26" W x 8.2" (0.39 lbs) 224 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - New England - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Demographic Orientation - Rural - Geographic Orientation - Massachusetts |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 6000 Reading Level: 8.7 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 21.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |