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Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
Thoreau's account of his solitary and self-sufficient home in the New England woods remains an inspiration to the environmental movement - a call to his fellow men to abandon their striving, materialistic existences of 'quiet desperation' for a simple life within their means, finding spiritual truth through awareness of the sheer beauty of their surroundings.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817-62) was born in Concord, Massachusetts and educated at Harvard. He became a follower and a friend of Emerson, and described himself as a mystic and a transcendentalist. Although he published only two books in his lifetime, Walden (from which this book is taken) is regarded as a literary masterpeice and one of the most significant books of the 19th century.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
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If you feel that you don't have the time to read the whole of Henry David Thoreau's words of wisdom in his book Walden; then this small book can be read as you commute to work as snippets from a wise man sink in to your mind just as if they were sound bites.
This is the man who influenced Count Leo Tolstoy to take up Ahimsa or nonviolence, Tolstoy then recommended this to Mahatma Gandhi, then the ideas of peace eventually flowed back to USA to Martin Luther King and a generation who rejected the words of war and a refusal to see all as brothers from the establishment.
Here are dew drops of quiet reasoning which infiltrates the hasty world of 21st Century speeded up existence; here are gems that could show a way through our modern madness.
This is the man who influenced Count Leo Tolstoy to take up Ahimsa or nonviolence, Tolstoy then recommended this to Mahatma Gandhi, then the ideas of peace eventually flowed back to USA to Martin Luther King and a generation who rejected the words of war and a refusal to see all as brothers from the establishment.
Here are dew drops of quiet reasoning which infiltrates the hasty world of 21st Century speeded up existence; here are gems that could show a way through our modern madness.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Like Walden Cliff's Notes
7 Feb 2009
Format:Paperback
The other reviewer is right that this book contains limited material from Walden. But that's precisely what makes it so useful. If you're interested in the full Walden experiment, with lengthy narratives on bird-watching and ditch-digging and any number of other things, by all means read Walden. However, for those who are simply interested in the philosophy of simple living and want to read shorter essays that get at the heart of it, this is an excellent selection. I fully recommend it.
3 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Don't buy this book!
9 Nov 2008
Format:Paperback
Not because it's not worth it; quite the opposite: this book contains only some chapters of Walden. Penguin has a low-priced volume which includes Walden and Civil Disobedience.
This (Walden) was one of the most important books I've read in all my life. I have re-read it and I will do so again in the future. Thoreau has some of the most interesting ideas I've read; you won't agree with him on many accounts, but he will force you to think.
Don't believe or accept everything you read but do read (or watch or listen to) everything you can and then try to make some sense out of it all.
This (Walden) was one of the most important books I've read in all my life. I have re-read it and I will do so again in the future. Thoreau has some of the most interesting ideas I've read; you won't agree with him on many accounts, but he will force you to think.
Don't believe or accept everything you read but do read (or watch or listen to) everything you can and then try to make some sense out of it all.
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