![]() ![]() Thoreau's wooden shack has won a place for itself in the collective American psyche, a remarkable achievement for a book with such modest and rustic beginnings. The result is an intriguing work which blends natural history with philosophical insights and includes many illuminating quotations from other authors. Thoreau constructed the house himself, with the help of a few friends, and one of the reasons why he moved into it was in an attempt to see if he could live independently and away from society. It recounts the author's experiences living in a small house in the woods around Walden Pond near Concord in Massachusetts. ![]() ![]() Henry Thoreau is considered, along with Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman and Nathaniel Hawthorne, as one of the leading figures in early American literature, and Walden is without doubt his most influential book. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Walden is the outcome of a two-year experiment (from July 1845 to September 1847) carried out by Henry David Thoreau, who lived in an isolated place called Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. Walden is a book written by American writer Henry David Thoreau. Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Henry David Thoreaus Waldenwas published in 1854. ![]()
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