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Walden: Or Life in the Woods (Vintage Classics)

Walden: Or Life in the Woods (Vintage Classics)

by HenryDavidThoreau (Author)

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Synopsis

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BENJAMIN MARKOVITS In 1845 Thoreau, a Harvard-educated 28-year-old, went to live by himself in the woods in Massachusetts. He stayed for over two years, living self-sufficiently in a small cabin built with his own hands. Walden is his personal account of the experience, in which he documents the beauty and fulfilment to be found in the wilderness, and his philosophical and political motivations for rejecting the materialism which continues to define our modern world.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 320
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 06 Jul 2017
ISBN 10: 1784872415
ISBN 13: 9781784872410

Media Reviews
Like Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Walden is one of those seriously important books I feel I must have read and, if I haven't, I should, because seriously important people - Tolstoy, Marx, Gandhi - said that it changed their lives -- Sue Arnold * Guardian *
A lovely read...Thoreau was ahead of his time, right down to his hipster beard -- Lauren Laverne * The Pool *
Walden can be taken as an antidote to apathy and anxiety. With its high spirits and keen appeals to the senses, it fortifies -- John Updike * Guardian *
Walden is really the original alternative manifesto -- Martin Kettle * Guardian *
It is as philosophy, as one of the great self-help books, as a spiritual message, that is Walden at its most powerful * Washington Post *
Author Bio
Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts, the town where he would live for most of his life. Along with Ralph Waldo Emerson, he is the most famous of the American Transcendentalists, a group of philosophical thinkers who frequently explored the relationship between human beings and the natural world. He was educated at Harvard, and over the course of his life took on a number of different occupations, including lead-pencil maker, schoolteacher and surveyor. Thoreau was outspokenly critical of the American government, fervently opposed to slavery, and an advocate of passive resistance. Whilst Walden (1854) is his best-known work, his 1849 essay `Civil Disobedience' has inspired non-violent political activists the world over, including Mahatma Ghandi and Martin Luther King Jr, and his nature writings are considered ground-breaking works in ecology. He died in his hometown of Concord in 1862.