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Sep 28, 2012 · Walden is a pond, just outside Concord, Massachusetts, and for two years in the mid-1840's Henry David Thoreau lived a largely solitary existence there, in a simple wooden cabin which he constructed. This book is a collection of his mediations on the natural world, and a person's place in it.
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Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, philosopher, and abolitionist who is best known for Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.
Apr 2, 2014 · Henry David Thoreau began writing nature poetry in the 1840s, with poet Ralph Waldo Emerson as a mentor and friend. ... The book was a modest success, but it wasn't until much later that the book ...
Jun 22, 2018 · Henry David Thoreau: A Life. by Laura Dassow Walls. 1 Walden by Henry David Thoreau. 2 The Maine Woods by Henry David Thoreau. 3 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard. 4 Stress and Freedom by Peter Sloterdijk. 5 Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer. M any of us will be familiar with Thoreau’s most famous book Walden, a paean to simple living ...
Jul 7, 2017 · Two hundred years after his birth, and two generations after the last full-scale biography, Walls restores Henry David Thoreau to us in all his profound, inspiring complexity. Walls traces the full arc of Thoreau’s life, from his early days in the intellectual hothouse of Concord, when the American experiment still felt fresh and precarious ...
Henry David Thoreau Books Massachusetts native Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was a leading member of the American Transcendentalist movement, whose faith in nature was tested while Thoreau lived in a homemade hut at Walden Pond between 1845 and 1847.
