Where I Lived, and What I Lived for
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Book Overview
The perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin's Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of history's most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged with a unique type-driven design that highlights the bookmaker's art. Offering great literature in great packages at great prices, this series is ideal for those readers who want to explore and savor the Great Ideas that have shaped our world. Thoreau's account of his solitary and self-sufficient home in the New England woods remains an inspiration to the environmental movement--a call to his fellow men to abandon their striving, materialistic existences of 'quiet desperation' for a simple life within their means, finding spiritual truth through awareness of the sheer beauty of their surroundings.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:B001M0Y5S0
ISBN13:9780143037583
Release Date:May 2006
Publisher:Penguin Books
Length:112 Pages
Weight:0.20 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 4.3" x 7.0"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
Customer Reviews
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Like Walden Cliff's Notes
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
The other reviewer is right that this book contains limited material from Walden. But that's precisely what makes it so useful. If you're interested in the full Walden experiment, with lengthy narratives on bird-watching and ditch-digging and any number of other things, by all means read Walden. However, for those who are simply interested in the philosophy of simple living and want to read shorter essays that get at the heart of it, this is an excellent selection. I fully recommend it.
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