About this title: INCLUDES 'WALDEN' COMPLETE; SELECTIONSFROM 'A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS' 'THE MAINE WOODS' AND THE 'JOURNAL'; EIGHTEEN POEMS AND SIXTEEN ESSAYS.
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Viking
Date Published: 1971
Description: Revised Edition. The original pocket-size edition, great for the backpack. Very good reader's copy with clean text throughout. Wraps. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Viking Press
Date Published: 1969
Description: Good. 1967 edition. Binding is tight and square. Previous owners notes on inside cover. Has some underlining and/or highlighting. Light edge or corner wear. We recommend PRIORITY mail for even faster delivery! Careful packaging and fast shipping. read more
Edition: 20th
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Viking Penguin, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1976
ISBN-13:9780670010318ISBN:0670010316
Description: Very Good. As issued No Jacket. Spine lean, smudges right edge of book, several pages of book had been corner creased by a bump, and some other light to moderate shopwear. Complete text of Walden, plus generous selections of all of his other books, plus poems, jounal selections, and essays. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Viking Press
Date Published: 1969
Description: Good in Has some underlining. jacket. Rev edn of Viking Portable Library Thoreau P31 w/intro by Carl Bode. 9th printing January 1969of rev edn issued 1964, first publ 1947. Binding is tight and square. An average used paperback with wear, corner bumps, small creases, light stains, etc. Ships at once. We recommend PRIORITY for even faster delivery! read more
Edition: Paperback Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: The Viking Press, New York
Date Published: 1970
Description: Very Good+ 670-01031-6 Walden (complete), Essays, Poems, Journal. Mass market paperback. 698 pages. Revised edition. Book is slightly worn. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: The Viking Press
Date Published: 1964
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover shows some shelfwear. Inside has pencil notes and some pen check marks. Pages and spine firm. 698 p. Includes bibliography. read more
Edition: 5th Printing, Stated
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Viking Press, New York
Date Published: 1960
Description: Very Good Plus/No Jacket Issued. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall Edited, and with an introduction, by Carl Bode. Illustrated front cover.698 pages. Light wear to some extremities. A tight, clean handsome copy. read more
Edition: 16th Printing, Revised Edition
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Viking Press, New York
Date Published: 1972
Description: Very Good Plus/No Jacket Issued. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall Edited, and with an introduction, by Carl Bode. Illustrated front cover. 698 pages. Light wear to some extremities. A tight, clean handsome copy. read more
"I had never read anything by Thoreau before this book. I had, of course, heard of him, but I never had the desire to read what I perceived would be a long, dull book about the woods. I love nature, but I love being in nature not (or so I thought) reading about it. That said, Thoreau pleasantly surprised me; I actually really enjoyed reading these selections. Walden isn't merely hundreds of pages describing a flower or stream; Thoreau places a lot of philosophy in his work. He stresses individuality and discovering oneself by leaving the trappings of civilization and its material desires behind. I think he might even agree with me that you can't be transformed by merely reading about Nature, but you have to actually go out and experience it for yourself.
One of my favorite pieces was "Walking". His idea of a walk is no doubt a far cry from what we think of walking as today: "If you are ready to leave father and mother, and brother and sister, and wife and child and friends, and never see them again - if you have paid your debts, and made your will, and settled all your affairs, and are a free man - then you are ready for a walk. (593)" Thoreau would not approve of walking while talking on cell phones or listening to iPods; this detracts from truly engaging in the world around you. Of course, many of us are too anxiety-ridden to relax enough for a stroll; we use the mp3 players to drown out our own thoughts on purpose since allowing them to take hold tends to be overwhelming. And I think this fear of free thinking is what Thoreau was afraid would happen to a materialistic society? That we would become so preoccupied with working and making money to earn the things we think we need that nothing is ever enough and work is never done, that our workday follows us home and fogs our thoughts that we no longer see any of the world clearly.
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