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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OpenLibraryIdentifiers
- LibraryThing key:
- 2470535
- BNF ID:
- 12152763z
Edizioni di Walden
Filtri
Walden - Ovvero Vita nei boschi
lingua Italian
Pubblicato il 10 Marzo 1988
- ISBN:
- 978-88-17-16654-6ISBN copiato!
Walden oder Leben in den Wäldern
lingua German
Pubblicato da Diogenes Verlag.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-257-20019-5ISBN copiato!
Walden
lingua English
Pubblicato il 2004
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4008-2427-4ISBN copiato!
Walden
lingua English
Pubblicato il 2021 da Independently Published.
- ISBN:
- 979-8-7097-8240-2ISBN copiato!
Walden Illustrated
lingua English
Pubblicato il 2021 da Independently Published.
- ISBN:
- 979-8-4761-5795-3ISBN copiato!
Walden Annotated
lingua English
Pubblicato il 2021 da Independently Published.
- ISBN:
- 979-8-4828-5958-2ISBN copiato!
Walden Annotated
lingua English
Pubblicato il 2022 da Independently Published.
- ISBN:
- 979-8-8148-1426-5ISBN copiato!
Walden Illustrated
lingua English
Pubblicato il 2022 da Independently Published.
- ISBN:
- 979-8-4136-4484-3ISBN copiato!
Walden Illustrated
lingua English
Pubblicato il 2021 da Independently Published.
- ISBN:
- 979-8-7905-9655-1ISBN copiato!
Walden Illustrated
lingua English
Pubblicato il 2022 da Independently Published.
- ISBN:
- 979-8-4289-9156-7ISBN copiato!
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