Walden
Introduction and Annotations by Bill McKibben
$41.15
- Hardcover
344 pages
- Release Date
16 December 2025
Summary
A deluxe edition of Henry David Thoreau’s groundbreaking environmentalist masterpiece, including an introduction and annotations by renowned social and environmental critic Bill McKibben. A Beacon Classics edition, featuring spot gloss cover and retro, classic palette.
First published in 1854, Walden has influenced generations of readers and continues to inspire and inform anyone with an open mind, a love of nature, and a longing for simplicity and contemplation. Recounting t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780807024102 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0807024104 |
| Author: | Henry David Thoreau, Bill McKibben |
| Publisher: | Beacon Press |
| Imprint: | Beacon Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 344 |
| Release Date: | 16 December 2025 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Beacon Classics |
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Critics Review
Bill McKibben gives us Thoreau’s Walden as the gospel of the present moment. –Robert D. Richardson, Jr., author of Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind
’[Thoreau] says so many pithy and brilliant things, and offers so many piquant, and, we may add, so many just, comments on society as it is, that this book is well worth the reading, both for its actual contents and its suggestive capacity.’ –A. P. Peabody, North American Review, 1854
’[Walden] still seems to me the best youth’s companion yet written by an American, for it carries a solemn warning against the loss of one’s valuables, it advances a good argument for traveling light and trying new adventures, it rings with the power of powerful adoration, it contains religious feeling without religious images, and it steadfastly refuses to record bad news.’ –E. B. White, Yale Review, 1954
‘Bill McKibben gives us Thoreau’s Walden as the gospel of the present moment.’ -Robert D. Richardson, Jr., author of Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was a writer, philosopher, and naturalist. Walden is considered his masterpiece.
Bill McKibben is the author of Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age, The End of Nature, and The Age of Missing Information. He lives with his family in the Adirondack Mountains.
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