Henry David Thoreau's classic masterwork of transcendental experimentation and introspection, as he chronicles his time in the woods.
Walden is a reflection on simple living in natural surroundings written by Henry David Thoreau. It chronicles Thoreau's two-year stay in a small cabin he built near Walden Pond in Massachusetts, where he sought to live a life of simplicity and self-sufficiency. The book explores...
The ultimate gift edition of Walden for bibliophiles, aficionados, and scholars "Replaces all other available editions of Walden as the most attractive and reliable way to approach this great American book."--Joel Porte, author of Consciousness...
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's...
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American naturalist, poet, philosopher, and essayist who played a leading role in the transcendentalist movement. A prolific writer, he produced more than 20 volumes of articles, essays, journals, poetry and books, with his most notable...
A beautiful illustrated edition of Thoreau's classic treatise on man and nature.
"Our life is frittered away by detail. . . . Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity " Henry David Thoreau built his small cabin on the shore of Walden Pond in 1845...
A beloved classic reissued for contemporary readers. Experience a year in the life of Thoreau at Walden Pond in this classic work. Visit the bean-field, the village, and the ponds; learn about our brute neighbors, the higher laws of nature and humankind, and the...
Walden is a book by transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon 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...
Set in 1845, 'Walden' recounts the story of Harvard-educated Thoreau's life as he spent two years, two months and two days living without any support in an isolated cabin near Walden Pond, Concord, Massachusetts. By these means, Thoreau immersed himself in the natural world and...
Walden by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self-reliance. First published in...
ABOUT THE BOOK AND AUTHOR Walden; or, Life in the Woods was written by transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) and was first published in 1854. In later editions, the title was shortened to Walden. It is Henry David Thoreau's best known work .In this book, Thoreau describes...
To coincide with the bicentennial of Thoreau's birth and TarcherPerigee's publication of Expect Great Things: The Life of Henry David Thoreau, here is a sumptuous rediscovery edition of the first illustrated volume of Thoreau's classic, as originally issued in 1897....
The ultimate gift edition of Walden for bibliophiles, aficionados, and scholars "Replaces all other available editions of Walden as the most attractive and reliable way to approach this great American book."--Joel Porte, author of Consciousness...
By virtue of its casual, off-handedly brilliant wisdom and the easy splendor of its nature writing, Thoreau's account of his adventure in self-reliance on the shores of a pond in Massachusetts is one of the signposts by which the modern mind has located itself in an increasingly...
Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.