| Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience Contributor(s): Thoreau, Henry David (Author) |
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ISBN: 172343616X ISBN-13: 9781723436161 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $7.59 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections |
| Lexile Measure: 1200 |
| Physical Information: 0.36" H x 7" W x 10" (0.67 lbs) 168 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Walden is a book by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon 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. First published in 1854, 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 used this time to write his first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. The experience later inspired Walden, in which Thoreau compresses the time into a single calendar year and uses passages of four seasons to symbolize human development. |