Walden : Or life in the woods /
With an introduction by Benjamin Markovits
- This edition published in 2017.
- London : Vintage , 1854
- 295 pages : 20 cm
In 1845 Henry David Thoreau, one of the principal New England Transcendentalists, left the town for the country. Beside the lake of Walden, he built himself a log cabin and returned to nature, to observe and reflect while surviving on eight dollars a year. From this experience emerged one of the great classics of American literature, a deeply personal reaction against the commercialism and materialism that he saw as the main impulses of mid-19th century America.
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American literature --Autobiography Classic --Philosophy