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, …
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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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Collegamenti esterni
OpenLibraryIdentifiers
- LibraryThing key:
- 2470535
- BNF ID:
- 12152763z
Edizioni di Walden
Filtri
The Illustrated Walden
lingua English
Pubblicato il 25 Ottobre 2016
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-312926-4ISBN copiato!
Walden
taschenbuch, 359 pagine
lingua German
Pubblicato il Marzo 2007 da Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-423-12684-7ISBN copiato!
Walden
Brossura, 262 pagine
Pubblicato da Empire Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-61949-391-9ISBN copiato!
Walden ou la vie dans les bois
lingua French
Pubblicato il 1992 da Aubier.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-7007-0278-1ISBN copiato!
Walden ou La vie dans les bois : extraits
lingua French
Pubblicato il 2016 da Librio.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-290-12055-2ISBN copiato!
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