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by: Henry, David Thoreau
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 920
EAN: 9781420922615
ISBN: 1420922610
Label: Digireads.com
Manufacturer: Digireads.com
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 156
Publication Date: January 01, 2005
Publisher: Digireads.com
Sales Rank: 3256
Studio: Digireads.com
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'Walden' is the classic account of two years spent by Henry David Thoreau living at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. The story is detailed in its accounts of Thoreau's day-to-day activities, observations, and undertakings to survive out in the wilderness for two years. Thoreau's journal is an exquisite account of a man seeking a more simple life by living in harmony with nature. In today's fast-paced consumer-driven society the austere life style endorsed by Thoreau is as relevant and refreshing as ever.
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Rating:  - A Must Own Book
This book is fantastic. It's one of my favorite books along with Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey. The Transcendentalists really knew what was going on. In our consumeristic times, it is necessary to learn how to simplify. That is what Thoreau was all about.
Rating:  - The print and size of book make it hard to read
Something about the way the book was put together, literally- the size of the book is too big and you cannot hold it right because the print is all the way to the middle crease. Very akward. Disappointed- damn cheap publisher! My mom has an old extra copy she is going to give me. This is going to goodwill.
Thoreau is awesome. Too bad the book doesn't live up to his words.
Rating: - Loved it!
The service was prompt, the book was brand new, and cheaper than the list price!!!
Rating: - Walden, by Henry David Thoreau
This book should be required reading for every high school and college student in every school in the country. Our narcissistic, throwaway, gadget-intoxicated society needs to hear Thoreau's message about the satisfaction gained through living simply, and about the difference between want and need. Not to mention his pronouncement that we do not own our possessions but are rather owned and enslaved by them.
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