Walden ; or Life in the Woods [Illustrated]

by Henry David Thoreau, Bieber Publishing (Introduction)

Overview

This edition of Walden is specially formatted with illustrations and a Touch-or-Click Table of Contents.

Henry David Thoreau was born David Henry Thoreau on July 12, 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts. Mr. Thoreau was an author, poet, abolitionist, naturalist, surveyor, transcendentalist, and philosopher. Thoreau’s works intertwine his love of history philosophy and nature. Many of his theories about environmental history and ecology are still applied today.

Thoreau’s book Walden, originally published in August 9, 1854, reflects on his journey and goal of living as simply as possible with limited possessions in a natural setting. Poet Robert Frost wrote, “In one book…[Thoreau] surpasses everything we have had in America.”

John Updike wrote, “A century and a half after its publication, Walden has become such a totem of the back-to-nature, preservationist, anti-business, civil-disobedience mindset, and Thoreau so vivid a protester, so perfect a crank and hermit saint, that the book risks being as revered and unread as the Bible.”

In his influential and critically acclaimed book, Thoreau focuses on the idea of survival and how he could survive with very little. Thoreau advocated abandoning things that are not needed to survive in order to discover meaning in life.

You can download additional works by Henry David Thoreau and other great authors through Wyatt North and Bieber Publishing.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013331938
Publisher:	Bieber Publishing
Publication date:	09/10/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Massachusetts native Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was a leading member of the American Transcendentalist movement, whose faith in nature was tested while Thoreau lived in a homemade hut at Walden Pond between 1845 and 1847. While there, Thoreau worked on the two books published in his lifetime: Walden and A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, Excursions, and other works were published posthumously.

Date of Birth:

July 12, 1817

Date of Death:

May 6, 1862

Place of Birth:

Concord, Massachusetts

Place of Death:

Concord, Massachusetts

Education:

Concord Academy, 1828-33); Harvard University, 1837