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Walden

150th Anniversary Edition

Henry David Thoreau, J. Lyndon Shanley, J. Shanley

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Walden

150th Anniversary Edition

Henry David Thoreau, J. Lyndon Shanley, J. Shanley

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One of the most influential and compelling books in American literature, Walden is a vivid account of the years that Henry D. Thoreau spent alone in a secluded cabin at Walden Pond. This edition--introduced by noted American writer John Updike--celebrates the perennial importance of a classic work, originally published in 1854. Much of Walden's material is derived from Thoreau's journals and contains such engaging pieces from the lively "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For" and "Brute Neighbors" to the serene "Reading" and "The Pond in the Winter." Other famous sections involve Thoreau's visits with a Canadian woodcutter and with an Irish family, a trip to Concord, and a description of his bean field. This is the complete and authoritative text of Walden--as close to Thoreau's original intention as all available evidence allows.
This is the authoritative text of Walden and the ideal presentation of Thoreau's great document of social criticism and dissent.

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Index
Achilles, ant as, 229
Achilles’ reproof, 144
Adam, 179; and Eve, first shelter of, 28; contemplating his virtue, 331; ennui old as, 10; men esteem truth existent before, 97
Adam’s grandmother ways, 209
Admetus, 70
advice of old to young, 9
Æolian music, 131
Æschylus, 100, 103
Æsculapius, 139
Africa, Southern, hunters in, 320
[Agassiz, Louis], distinguished naturalist, 225
[Alcott, Amos Bronson], 268-70; as Great Expecter, 270; as peddler, 268; blue-robed man, 269; true friend of man, 269
Aldebaran, 88
alertness, 17-18. See also awakeness
Alexander, 298; carried Iliad, 102
Algonquins, cited, 212
Alms House Farm, 257
almshouse, visitors from, 151
Altair, 88
America, 324; history compared to ant war, 230; imitative in fashions, 25; Irish coming to, 205
animal heat, 12-13
animal in men, 219
animal man, Therien as, 146
animals, farm, 56-57; in spring, 302
ANIMALS, WINTER, 271-81
ant war, 228-32
Antaeus, 155
Apios tuberosa, 239
appetite, 218. See also diet
apples, wild, gathered, 238
apple-trees, wild, 276
Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, 95
Arcadia, 57
architects, 46
architecture, organic, 47-48
art, moral, 90
Artist who made the world, 306
artist of Kouroo, 326-27
Assyria, learned societies of, gone, 331
Astor House, 140
auction, 67
Augean stables, 5
Aurora, 36, 88, 138; children of, 89
autumn, 240; fruit in, 238; waterfowl in, 233-37
awakeness, 17-18, 90, 333
awakening, 84, 89-90, 127; need for, 325
axe, borrowed, 40-42; lost in pond, 178; new helve in, 251-52
Babylon, bricks of, 241
Baker, Gilian, 232
BAKER FARM, 201-09
Baker Farm, 203; hounds at, 278; poem about quoted, 203, 204, 208; rain at, 203
Baker’s barn, fi...

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