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Walden

by Henry David Thoreau

1854 · Memoir · Philosophy

Open Library OL55649W

Thoreau’s account of two years in a cabin by Walden Pond, arranged by season and by argument. It is a book about economy in the old sense: how a life is furnished.

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Thoreau’s Walden is the record of a stay in the woods and an argument about how much a life needs. The pond is real; the book is also a piece of rhetoric. More of this shelf for Henry David Thoreau.

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