Walden (Life in the Woods) - Softcover

Thoreau, Henry David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1546561129 ISBN 13: 9781546561125

Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

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Walden (first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) 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. 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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• Verlag: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1546561129
• ISBN 13: 9781546561125
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 258