Walden
$21.97
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
12 February 2009
Summary
‘The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation’
In 1845, Henry David Thoreau left his hometown of Concord, Massachusetts to begin a new life alone, in a rough hut he built himself a mile and a half away on the north-west shore of Walden Pond.
Walden is Thoreau’s classic autobiographical account of his experiment in solitary living, his refusal to play by the rules of hard work and the accumulation of wealth, and above all the freedom it gave him to adapt his living …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199538065 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199538069 |
| Author: | Henry David Thoreau, Stephen Allen Fender |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 12 February 2009 |
| Weight: | 312g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
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About The Author
Henry David Thoreau
Stephen Allen Fender is Professor of American Studies and Director of the Graduate Research Centre in the Humanities, School of English and American Studies at the University of Sussex. His books include Plotting the Golden West: American Literature and the Rhetoric of the California Trail and Sea Changes: British Emigration and American Literature.
Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1817 and is known for his extreme individualism, his preference for simple, austere living, and revolt against the demands of society and government. His other works are A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), Civil Disobedience (1849), Excursions, (1863) and The Maine Woods (1864).
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