Walden

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Walden by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is a part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of religious discovery, satire, and manual for self-reliance. First published in 1854, it 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. The book compresses the time into a single calendar year and uses passages of four seasons to symbolize human development. By immersing himself in nature, Thoreau was hoping to achieve a more objective working out of society through personal introspection. Simple living and self-sufficiency were Thoreau’s other goals, and the entire project was once inspired by transcendentalist philosophy, a central theme of the American Romantic Period. As Thoreau made clear in his book, his cabin was once not in wilderness but on the edge of the city, about two miles (3 km) from his circle of relatives home.


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