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Full Work Summary. Walden opens with a simple announcement that Thoreau spent two years in Walden Pond, near Concord, Massachusetts, living a simple life supported by no one. He says that he now resides among the civilized again; the episode was clearly both experimental and temporary.
Walden is a memoir by the transcendentalist writer and philosopher Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1854. It opens with the author’s straightforward statement that he spent two years in Walden Pond, near Concord, Massachusetts, living a simple life supported by no one.
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Walden; or, Life in the Woods is a nonfiction book about Thoreau's experience at Walden Pond, near Concord, Massachusetts, from July 1845 to September 1847.
In his new book, Cryptic Subtexts in Literature and Film: Secret Messages and Buried Treasure (New York: Routledge, 2019), Steven F. Walker offers a new interpretation of Walden’s 1854 subtitle, “Life in the Woods.”It is well known that that subtitle was hardly original, having appeared in several publications prior to the publication of Walden, including an article of that name by ...
Jun 30, 2005 · Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) was an American philosopher, poet, environmental scientist, and political activist whose major work, Walden, draws upon each of these various identities in meditating upon the concrete problems of living in the world as a human being.
Aug 1, 2008 · Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Homes and haunts -- Massachusetts -- Walden Woods Subject: Wilderness areas -- Massachusetts -- Walden Woods Subject: Natural history -- Massachusetts -- Walden Woods Subject: Solitude Subject: Walden Woods (Mass.) -- Social life and customs Category: Sound: EBook-No. 26289: Release Date: Aug 1, 2008: Most ...
