(P/B) WALDEN

Παρουσίαση

For naturalist, essayist and early environmentalist, Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), nature was a religion. In communing with the natural world, he wished to "live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and... learn what it had to teach." Toward that end Thoreau built a cabin in the spring of 1845 on the shores of Walden Pond -on land owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson- outside Concord, Massachusetts. There he observed nature, farmed, built fences, surveyed and wrote in his journal.
One product of his two-year sojourn was this book-a great classic of American letters. Interwoven with accounts of Thoreau's daily life (he received visitors and almost daily walked into Concord) are meditations on human existence, society, government and other topics, expressed with wisdom and beauty of style.
Walden offers abundant evidence of Thoreau's ability to begin with observations on a mundane incident or the minutiae of nature and then develop these observations into profound ruminations on the most fundamental human concerns. Credited with influencing Tolstoy, Gandhi and other thinkers, the volume remains a master piece of philosophical reflection. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Economy
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
Reading
Sounds
Solitude
Visitors
The Bean-Field
The Village
The Ponds
Baker Farm
Higher Laws
Brute Neighbors
House-Warming
Former Inhabitants; and Winter Visitors
Winter Animals
The Pond in Winter
Spring
Conclusion