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Where I Lived, and What I Lived For

Author: Henry Thoreau   Series: Penguin Great Ideas

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Twenty "Penguin Great Ideas" encompassing a riot of competing values. These short, astonishing works of non-fiction are drawn from the most remarkable writing of the past two and a half thousand years of human thinking.

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Twenty "Penguin Great Ideas" encompassing a riot of competing values. These short, astonishing works of non-fiction are drawn from the most remarkable writing of the past two and a half thousand years of human thinking.

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Following the overwhelming success of Great Ideas' launch, with a million sold in the UK alone, Penguin now publish a further 20 short, astonishing works of non-fiction drawn from the most remarkable writing of the past two and a half thousand years of human thinking.Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.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.

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About the Author

Henry David Thoreau (1817-62) was born in Concord, Massachusetts and educated at Harvard. He became a follower and a friend of Emerson, and described himself as a mystic and a transcendentalist. Although he published only two books in his lifetime, Walden (from which this book is taken) is regarded as a literary masterpeice and one of the most significant books of the 19th century.

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Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Published
25th August 2005
Edition
1st
Pages
112
ISBN
9780141023977

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