walden woods (mass.)

Thoreau details his solitary and simple life on the shores of Walden Pond.

Thoreau discusses his philosophy of life and observations of nature written while spending two years in a cabin on Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts.

Presents nineteenth-century American writer and social activist Henry David Thoreau's reflections upon living alone among nature for two years on Massachusetts' Walden Pond.

Presents two texts by American writer Henry David Thoreau: "Walden," in which he offers his philosophy of life and observations of nature gleaned from a year of solitary living in a cabin on Walden Pond in Massachusetts, and "Civil Disobedience," a treatise on nonviolent resistance and protest.

Thoreau stresses the importance of a quiet reflective life and the rewards of a non-materialistic existence in "Walden" and discusses his belief in nonviolent protests against an unjust government in "On the duty of civil disobedience".

Presents an annotated version of the 1854 edition of "Walden, " in which Thoreau offers his philosophy of life and observations of nature gleaned from two years of solitude living in a cabin on Walden Pond in Massachusetts.

Poet Ian Marshall extracts nearly three hundred haiku verses from within Henry David Thoreau's "Walden, " and discusses the haiku form of poetry, Thoreau's text, and American nature writing.

Thoreau discusses his philosophy of life and observations of nature written while spending two years in a cabin on Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts.

Annotated edition of Thoreau's journal, expressing his philosophy of life and observations of nature, drawn from his solitary sojourn of two years in a cabin on Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts.

A fully annotated edition of Henry David Thoreau's classic work "Walden", correcting errors and omissions from earlier editions of "Walden" and providing notes on the biographical, historical, and geographical contexts of Thoreau's life.