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Walden details Henry Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years and two months in a cabin owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson. The work is part social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and-to some degree-a manual for self-reliance.

Walden or Life in the Woods By Henry David ThoreauWalden is a book by transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and-to some degree-a manual for self-reliance.First published in 1854, Walden 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. Thoreau used this time (July 4, 1845 - September 6, 1847) to write his first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. The experience later inspired Walden, in which Thoreau compresses the time into a single calendar year and uses passages of four seasons to symbolize human development.The book can be seen as performance art, a demonstration of how easy it can be to acquire the four necessities of life. Once acquired, he believed people should then focus their efforts on personal growth.By immersing himself in nature, Thoreau hoped to gain a more objective understanding of society through personal introspection. Simple living and self-sufficiency were Thoreau's other goals, and the whole project was inspired by transcendentalist philosophy, a central theme of the American Romantic Period.Thoreau makes precise scientific observations of nature as well as metaphorical and poetic uses of natural phenomena. He identifies many plants and animals by both their popular and scientific names, records in detail the color and clarity of different bodies of water, precisely dates and describes the freezing and thawing of the pond, and recounts his experiments to measure the depth and shape of the bottom of the supposedly "bottomless"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.

Voter, est-ce faire quelque chose pour la justice ? Le vote ne détourne-t-il pas notre attention de l'engagement véritable ? N'y a-t-il pas des circonstances qui justifient inéluctablement la rébellion armée ? Qu'est-ce qu'être hors la loi, si ce n'est parfois réactualiser la démocratie ? En ces temps de crises politiques, l'essai La Désobéissance Civile de Thoreau se révèle intensément actuel, et donc indispensable: (Extrait): Sous un gouvernement qui emprisonne quiconque injustement, la véritable place d'un homme juste est aussi en prison. (...). Une minorité ne peut rien tant qu'elle se conforme à la majorité; ce n'est même pas alors une minorité. Mais elle est irrésistible lorsqu'elle fait obstruction de tout son poids. S'il n'est d'autre alternative que celle-ci: garder tous les justes en prison ou bien abandonner la guerre et l'esclavage, l'État n'hésitera pas à choisir. Si un millier d'hommes devaient s'abstenir de payer leurs impôts cette année, ce ne serait pas une initiative aussi brutale et sanglante que celle qui consisterait à les régler, et à permettre ainsi à l'État de commettre des violences et de verser le sang innocent. Cela définit, en fait, une révolution pacifique, dans la mesure où pareille chose est possible. En édition bilingue anglais/français, avec lecture audio intégrée: Non seulement vous pouvez lireLa Désobéissance Civile en français et en anglais, mais vous pouvez aussi écouter la lecture de cet ouvrage dans ces deux langues, grâce à votre téléphone ou tablette. L'idéal pour améliorer votre maîtrise de la langue de Henry David Thoreau... ou de Molière !

Do you want to read Walden and Civil Disobedience? If so then keep reading...In 1845, Thoreau moved to a cabin that he built with his own hands along the shores of Walden Pond in Massachusetts. Shedding the trivial ties that he felt bound much of humanity, Thoreau reaped from the land both physically and mentally, and pursued truth in the quiet of nature. In Walden, he explains how separating oneself from the world of men can truly awaken the sleeping self. Thoreau holds fast to the notion that you have not truly existed until you adopt such a lifestyle-and only then can you reenter society, as an enlightened being.What are you waiting for Walden and Civil Disobedience is one click away, select the "Buy Now" button in the top right corner NOW!

"This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore. I go and come with a strange liberty in Nature, a part of herself."Thoreau lived in his Walden camp but two years, 1845-1847, and, as his narrative clearly shows, by no means exiled himself from home and companions. His hermitage was within easy walking distance of Concord; and, though his seclusion meant privacy at times, he was by no means debarred from society. The life in the woods was a characteristic expression of his stout independence of condition since the act was in a way unique, it transferred something of its unique property to the book which recorded it, and the book is more closely identified with Thoreau's fame, has done more to give him distinction, than any other of his writings.This story, which is considered one of the greatest works of American literature, is a true ecological pamphlet whose content focuses on a much needed return to nature in every sphere of our life.This edition has a beautiful layout with a font size designed to make it easy to read.

America's ur-nonconformist, the so-called "hermit" of Walden Pond, was a comic at heart. Amid the transcendental musings of his best known works and the nature descriptions in his voluminous journal, Thoreau was constantly tossing off jokes, whipping out witticisms, and making fun of himself and others. Released just in time for the bicentennial of his birth, Funny-Ass Thoreau presents the famous writer in marvelous display of his most underappreciated quality: a killer sense of humor. Here's Henry in his own words as he tries to wrangle a pig, pees in the woods, loses a tooth, laughs at Emerson shooing off his own cow, observes the slippery slapstick of snowmelt and mud in the Concord streets, elaborates on his dislike of other men's bowels, and more.Included in this volume is Thoreau's posthumously-published lecture "Getting a Living," which can (and should be) read as a stand-up philosophy routine bristling with one-liners.(Edited & with an introduction by M. Allen Cunningham)

Do you want to read Walden and Civil Disobedience? If so then keep reading...In 1845, Thoreau moved to a cabin that he built with his own hands along the shores of Walden Pond in Massachusetts. Shedding the trivial ties that he felt bound much of humanity, Thoreau reaped from the land both physically and mentally, and pursued truth in the quiet of nature. In Walden, he explains how separating oneself from the world of men can truly awaken the sleeping self. Thoreau holds fast to the notion that you have not truly existed until you adopt such a lifestyle-and only then can you reenter society, as an enlightened being.What are you waiting for Walden and Civil Disobedience is one click away, select the "Buy Now" button in the top right corner NOW!