An edition of Walden: And Other Writings (1854)

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An edition of Walden: And Other Writings (1854)

Walden

1st edition

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  • ★★★ ★ 3.9 (33 ratings)
  • 447 Want to read
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  • 66 Have read

Walden está considerada como una obra literaria maestra y como uno de los libros seminales de su siglo. Antiesclavista militante, toda la obra de Henry David Thoreau se centra en la búsqueda de la "vida con principios", principios que serán el criterio de cómo debe ser vivida —con la honradez del trabajo como medio para ganarse la vida—, una vida que él explora y experimenta a través del estudio y la comprensión de la Naturaleza.

El 4 de julio de 1845, Thoreau se traslada a vivir en la cabaña que él mismo había construido en Walden Pond. Durante dos años escribe allí la obra homónima en la que describe su economía doméstica, sus experimentos en agricultura, sus visitantes y vecinos, las plantas y la vida salvaje. La obra de Thoreau es la historia de un experimento original, sin precedentes literarios. Walden es un modo de escribir, de ponerse a "disposición de las palabras", pero también es una Escritura, una forma de aprender lo que la vida tiene que enseñar.

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Language
Spanish
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357

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Walden
2014, Standard Ebooks
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Walden
2005, Cátedra
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wa erh teng hu =: Walden, or Life in the woods (lu se ching tien wen kʻu)
1997, Chi lin jen min chʻu pan she
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Walden
1996, Book of the month club
in English
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Selections from Walden: Walden or Life In The Woods
1973-01-01, Avenel Books
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Walden
1951
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Walden
1946, Illustrated Modern
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Walden
1942
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Chapters from Walden or Life in the Woods
1921, macmillan and co. limited
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Walden or life in the woods
1899, T. Y. Crowell & Company
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Walden, or, Life in the woods
1893, Houghton Mifflin
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Walden; or, Life in the woods
1854, Ticknor and Fields
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Edition Notes

Published in
Madrid, Spain
Series
Letras Universales, 375
Translation Of
Walden
Translated From
English

Contributors

Translator
Javier Alcoriza
Translator
Antonio Lastra
Editor
Antonio Lastra
Editor
Javier Alcoriza

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
357
Dimensions
6.8 x 4.3 x 0.7 inches
Weight
5.6 ounces

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL9130630M
ISBN 10
8437622123
ISBN 13
9788437622125
OCLC/WorldCat
59354383
LibraryThing
2470535
Goodreads
2354668

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL55649W
Wikidata
Q863534
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LibraryThing
2470535
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Work Description

Walden first published in 1854 as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is a book by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon the author's 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.

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 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" Walden Pond.

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