文档介绍：Walden
by Henry David Thoreau - 1854
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"I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in
the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up." - from the title
page of Walden's first edition.
Table of Contents
1. Economy: Parts A - B - C - D - E 10. Baker Farm
2. Where I Lived, & What I Lived for 11. Higher Laws
3. Reading 12. Brute Neighbors
4. Sounds 13. House-Warming
5. Solitude 14. Former Inhabitants; & Winter
6. Visitors Visitors
7. The Bean-Field 15. Winter Animals
8. The Village 16. The Pond in Winter
9. The Ponds: Parts A - B 17. Spring
18. Conclusion
Why Henry Thoreau did live in the woods? - a very quick answer
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Ask Jimmy - collected student questions & answers - the primary message of Walden
One Less Accountant: "Thoreau and Emerson saved me from spending a large chunk
of my life as an accountant. Walden had the approximate effect of a 2x4 thwacking
me between the eyes."
A contemporary review...
"The economical details and calculations in this book are more curious than useful;
for the author's life in the woods was on too narrow a scale to find imitators. But ... he
says so many pithy and brilliant things, and offers so many piquant, and, we may add,
so many just, comments on society as it is, that this book is well worth the reading,
both for its actual contents and its suggestive capacity."
- . Peabody, North American Review, 1854
100 years later...
"Thoreau, very likely without quite knowing what he was up to, took man's relation
to nature and man's dilemma in society and man's capacity for elevating his spirit and
he beat all these matters together, in a wild free interval of self-justification and
delight, and produced an original omelette from which people can draw nourishment
in a hungry day."
- . White, The Yale Review,