Paperback, 320 pages

Langue : English

Publié 15 octobre 1991 par Vintage.

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Henry Thoreau's "Walden" is a book about escaping from civilization in order to embrace your spiritual life

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Review of 'Walden' on 'Import'

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In Thoreau's most famous book, he creates a space to view the world by moving away from what is accepted as society. For three years he lived in a cabin in Walden, and stripped his life back to essentials, learning to love the world he inhabited.



He shows with a flair for poetry and vocabulary how the local and global can be mingled together, nearly a hundred years before the word 'globalisation' was first used. His interest in philosophical reading stretches across the world, while his interest in experience of the world is limited to a small area. His wry humour and versatile use of the English language makes this not only an enjoyable philosophical text, but also a very enjoyable book overall.

Sujets

  • Literary studies: 19th century
  • Other prose: 19th century
  • Natural history
  • Biography
  • 19th Century American Prose
  • Thoreau, Henry David,
  • Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • German
  • Philosophy
  • USA
  • Essays
  • American - General
  • Nature / General
  • Thoreau, Henry David
  • Walden Woods
  • Wilderness areas
  • 1817-1862
  • 19th century
  • Authors, American
  • Homes and haunts
  • Massachusetts