Walden
A Library of America Paperback Classic
$28.39
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
31 December 2009
Summary
A special edition of “the most remarkable book in the American canon”-Thoreau’s timeless ode to the beauty of a life lived simply and among nature (BillMcKibben)In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his pencil-manufacturing business and began building a cabin on the shore of Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. This lyrical yet practical-minded book is at once the record of the twenty-six months Thoreau spent in withdrawal from society-an account of the daily details of building, planting, hun…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781598530636 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1598530631 |
| Author: | Henry David Thoreau, Edward Hoagland |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 31 December 2009 |
| Weight: | 318g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 131mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Library of America (Hardcover) |
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About The Author
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1817. He graduated from Harvard in 1837, the same year he began his lifelong Journal. While living at Walden Pond, Thoreau worked on the two books published during his lifetime- Walden (1854) and A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849). Several of his other works, including The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, and Excursions, were published posthumously. Thoreau died in Concord, at the age of forty-four, in 1862.Edward Hoagland’s books include The Courage of Turtles, Walking the Dead Diamond River, Red Wolves and Black Bears, and Notes from the Century Before- A Journal from British Columbia.
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