ISBN:
9781497659728
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (361 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Walden
DDC:
304.2/091732
Keywords:
Thoreau, Henry David ; 1817-1862 ; Homes and haunts ; Massachusetts ; Walden Woods..
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Walden Woods (Mass.) ; Social life and customs..
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Wilderness areas ; Massachusetts ; Walden Woods
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
An American masterwork in praise of nature, self-reliance, and the simple lifeI went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. In 1845, the transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau moved from his home in the town of Concord, Massachusetts, to a small cabin he built by hand on the shores of Walden Pond. He spent the next two years alone in the woods, learning to live self-sufficiently and to take his creative and moral inspiration from
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover Page; Title Page; Economy; Where I Lived, and What I Lived For; Reading; Sounds; Solitude; Visitors; The Bean-Field; The Village; The Ponds; Baker Farm; Higher Laws; Brute Neighbors; House-Warming; Former Inhabitants and Winter Visitors; Winter Animals; The Pond in Winter; Spring; Conclusion; On The Duty of Civil Disobedience; Copyright Page
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