Walden: Color Illustrated, Formatted for E-Readers (Unabridged Version)
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| Rating | : | 4.21 (591 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B013ESTIZW |
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| Number of Pages | : | 150 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-03 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self-reliance. There are signs of ambiguity, or an attempt to see an alternative side of something common. Though he realizes its significance and importance, he thinks it unnecessary to always be in search for it. Connection to transcendentalism and to Emerson's essay. 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. How is this book unique? Formatte
"Walden" according to Brian Flatt. On my short list of all time favorite books, this one is up there at the top. It doesn't attain the #1 spot, but it's up there, definitely top five.I think it is very interesting to read the reviews and notice that the vast majority of the bad reviews are coming from the young, mainly teenagers who were made to read this in school. The vast majority of the good reviews are coming. Missing quotes Besides irritating formatting issues (as Mr. Wiggings mentioned in his review), I got over a quarter way through before realizing that the quotes are missing! I'd see many lines that just seemed to end with half a thought and a comma or double-dash, with nothing to punctuate his statement (price, poem, song, etc.). I just grabbed the MOBI version from Project Gutenberg ([]) and e. Wisdom from a Dead White Guy. Astonishingly enough feminists and snowflakes could learn something from this book, something called tolerance and perhaps compassion. Thoreau's observations on life and self-reflection are more profound and wiser than all the rant and cant blaring and whining on the media today. His observations on the racial situation concerning the pre- Civil War era are sad and disturbing. Di
. The abridgements are not substantive, so listeners will feel that they have become acquainted with the complexities of a text that is both orderly and sprinkled with irony and other literary devices. William Hope reads leisurely but with feeling, offering listeners the illusion that the author is speaking directly to them. Hope's pacing invites readers with minimal skills to accompany their print foray with his narration. The careful editing here assures that they will not become lost between page and sound.Francisca Goldsmith, Berkeley Public Library, CACopyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. From School Library Journal Grade 9 & Up--Henry David Thoreau's classic, first published in 1854 and reporting on his experiences at the eponymous site where he lived in physical and social independence during the mid-1840's,