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Walden
Contributor(s): Blake, Sheba (Author), Thoreau, Henry David (Author)

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 ISBN: 1548766542     ISBN-13: 9781548766542
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
OUR PRICE: $11.39  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: July 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
Lexile Measure: 1300
Physical Information: 0.37" H x 8.5" W x 11.02" L (0.91 lbs) 172 pages
 
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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) 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. By immersing himself in nature, Thoreau hoped to gain a more objective understanding of society through personal introspection. Simple living and self-sufficiency were Thoreau's other goals, and the whole project was inspired by transcendentalist philosophy, a central theme of the American Romantic Period.
 
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