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Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Walden is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience is

Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Walden is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience is

Thoreau, Henry David

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Biographies GeneralGeneral Political ScienceNature Writing

ISBN10: 249125140X
ISBN13: 9782491251406
Publisher: Les Prairies Numeriques
Published: Jul 25 2020
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.49 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English
  • Walden is a book by 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 (July 4, 1845 - September 6, 1847) to write his first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849). 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.
  • 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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