Walden (eBook)

Henry David Thoreau (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
158 Seiten
Sheba Blake Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-96217-048-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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) 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. By immersing himself in nature, Thoreau hoped to gain a more objective understanding of society through personal introspection. Simple living and self-sufficiency were Thoreau's other goals, and the whole project was inspired by transcendentalist philosophy, a central theme of the American Romantic Period.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.6.2017
• Verlagsort: Vachendorf
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: Autobiography • Biography • classics • Historical • History • Memoir • Memoirs • Nonfiction • Non Fiction • Reference
• ISBN-10: 3-96217-048-0 / 3962170480
• ISBN-13: 978-3-96217-048-6 / 9783962170486