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Walden, Or, Life in the Woods (1854) .
Henry David Thoreau
出版Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print US, 2019-01-25
主題Fiction / General
ISBN17950978259781795097826
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=gMtIwQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Walden, or, Life in the Woods 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. 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