Walden (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) - Thoreau, Henry David
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Walden details Henry Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years and two months in a cabin owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson. The work is part social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and-to some degree-a manual for self-reliance.

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Walden details Henry Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years and two months in a cabin owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson. The work is part social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and-to some degree-a manual for self-reliance.
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Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862) was an American essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience", an argument for disobedience to an unjust state. Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry amount to more than 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions are his writings on natural history and philosophy, in which he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern-day environmentalism. His literary style interweaves close observation of nature, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore, while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and Yankee attention to practical detail. He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time he advocated abandoning waste and illusion in order to discover life's true essential needs. He was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the Fugitive Slave Law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending the abolitionist John Brown. Thoreau's philosophy of civil disobedience later influenced the political thoughts and actions of such notable figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr.