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  • Published: 15 August 2014
  • ISBN: 9780804171564
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $30.00

Walden





Thoreau's account of his adventure in self-reliance on the shores of a pond in Massachusetts--part social experiment, part spiritual quest--is an enduringly influential American classic. A VINTAGE CLASSICS REISSUE.

Henry David Thoreau’s account of his adventure in self-reliance on the shores of a pond in Massachusetts—part social experiment, part spiritual quest—is an enduringly influential American classic.

In 1845, Thoreau began building a cabin at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. The inspiring and lyrical book that resulted is both a record of the two years Thoreau spent in withdrawal from society and a declaration of personal independence. By virtue of its casual, offhandedly brilliant wisdom and the easy splendor of its nature writing, Thoreau’s account of his immersion in solitude has become a signpost for the modern mind in an increasingly bewildering world.

Also included in this edition is Thoreau’s famous essay, “Civil Disobedience,” inspired by his anti-war and anti-slavery sentiments, which has influenced nonviolent resistance movements around the world ever since.

  • Published: 15 August 2014
  • ISBN: 9780804171564
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $30.00

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Praise for Walden

  • "In one book ... Thoreau surpasses everything we have had in America." --Robert Frost
  • "A totem of the back-to-nature, preservationist, anti-business, civil-disobedience mindset... Thoreau [is] so vivid a protester, so perfect a crank and hermit saint, that the book risks being as revered and unread as the Bible." --John Updike
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