Walden: Life in the Woods (Gsp- Trade)
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Rating | : | 4.69 (962 Votes) |
Asin | : | 1423646797 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 114 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2016-10-29 |
Language | : | English |
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Walden 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 thi. Missing quotes Neil C. Obremski 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 ju. Wisdom from a Dead White Guy. David Purcell 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
His writings on natural history and philosophy have become two sources of modern-day environmentalism.. " Experience a year in the life of Thoreau at Walden Pond in this classic work. Visit the bean-field, the village, and the ponds; learn about our brute neighbors, the higher laws of nature and humankind, and the benefits of reading and solitude. "A beloved classic reissued for contemporary readers. Henry David Thoreau was an American author, poet, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher and leading transcendentalist