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Walden is a book by noted 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. First published in 1854, Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau used this time to write his first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. The experience later inspired Walden, in which Thoreau compresses the time into a single calendar year and uses passages of four seasons to symbolize human development.
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- ISBN-13: 9781723436130
- ISBN-10: 1723436135
- Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publish Date: July 2018
- Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 0.46 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.85 pounds
- Page Count: 218
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