This handsome, affordable paperback edition of 'Walden' is the most authoritative version of Thoreau' s masterpiece to date. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Walden, the account of his stay, conveys at once a naturalist's wonder at the commonplace and a Transcendentalist's yearning for spiritual truth and self-reliance. Disdainful of America's booming commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thoreau left Concord, Massachusetts, in 1845 to live in solitude in the woods near Walden Pond. In 1846, he was arrested for not having paid his poll tax, as a way of demonstrating that he did not recognize the authority of a government that 'buys and sells men, women, and children.' It is a treatise against slavery and a government that wages war to support injustice.

'Civil Disobedience', was also based on Thoreau's experiences during the period he lived on the pond. Though widely reviewed at the time of publication, sales did not reflect the attention the book received. He carefully shaped the book to follow the natural cycle of the seasons, yet it is more than an account of life in the woods, it is a quest for personal freedom and individuality that evokes nature without being sentimental or distorting the natural world. 'Walden' was the fruit of Thoreau's two-year stay on the Walden Pond. This handsome, affordable paperback edition is based on the original 1854 edition with emendations taken from Thoreau' s draft manuscripts, his own markings on page proofs, and notes in his personal copy of the book. Also included here are notes on the text, an afterword by the editor, and a helpful selected bibliography.

An introduction by Denis Donoghue places Thoreau' s life and achievement in context. An elegantly produced paperback, it has been priced especially with the student market in mind. Cramer' s newly edited text is based on the original 1854 edition of 'Walden,' with emendations taken from Thoreau' s draft manuscripts, his own markings on page proofs, and notes in his personal copy of the book.

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