Walden
And Other Writings
About this book
Walden first published in 1854 as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is a book by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon the author's simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and—to some degree—a 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 makes precise scientific observations of nature as well as metaphorical and poetic uses of natural phenomena. He identifies many plants and animals by both their popular and scientific names, records in detail the color and clarity of different bodies of water, precisely dates and describes the freezing and thawing of the pond, and recounts his experiments to measure the depth and shape of the bottom of the supposedly "bottomless" Walden Pond.
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Subjects
- aesthetic realism
- alternativbewegung
- american
- american authors
- american literature
- authors, american
- authors, biography
- biography
- civil disobedience
- civil disobedience (thoreau, henry david)
- classic literature
- conduct of life
- écrivains américains
- english essays
- english language
- essays
- fiction
- fiction, general
- gewaltloser widerstand
- homes
- homes and haunts
- indexes
- juvenile literature
- lakes
- large type books
- literary
- literature, collections
- loneliness
- manners and customs
- massachusetts, description and travel
- massachusetts, politics and government
- massachusetts, social life and customs
- mœurs et coutumes
- natural history
- natural history, united states
- nonfiction
- on the duty of civil disobedience (thoreau)
- philosophy
- philosophy, american
- philosophy, modern, 19th century
- philosophy of nature
- réserves de la vie sauvage
- résistance au gouvernement
- resistance to government
- sciences naturelles
- social life and customs
- solitude
- walden (thoreau, henry david)
- wilderness areas
- wildnerness areas