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Aug 1, 2021 · Download Walden, a classic transcendentalist tract by Henry David Thoreau, for free from the Internet Archive. Walden is an account of Thoreau’s famous experiment in solitude, spending over two years alone in a cabin near the wilderness.
Jan 28, 2021 · Economy. When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only.
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats.
Walden. I do not propose to write an ode to. dejection, but to brag as lustily as. chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up. —Page 81.
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 ...
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Feb 21, 2018 · Title vignette (Thoreau's hut at Walden Pond); the plan is of Walden Pond, 1846 First ed. "The beginning 'Light-winged smoke, Icarian bird' (p. 271) were published in the Dial, for April, 1843, under title of 'Smoke,' but nothing else in the book appears ever to have been printed before." - F.H. Allen, A bibl. of H.D. Thoreau, 1908
[WALDEN; OR, LIFE IN THE WOODS] Although the first edition gives the title Walden; or, Life in the Woods, on March 4, 1862, two months before he died, T wrote to his publishers, Ticknor & Fields, asking them to omit the subtitle in a new edition. They complied with this request, although it has rarely been followed since.
