Henry Thoreau spent two years, two months, and two days in a cabin on the shores of Walden Pond, in voluntary isolation from society, farming, fishing, reading, and forsaking the unnecessary inventions of modern civilization.
The result of this seclusion was the book "Walden; or, Life in the Woods" — 18 essays and observations on building a cabin, managing a household, the inhabitants of the forest, and nature. The vividness of the descriptions, the sharp wit of the satire, and the passionate polemics are all part of a personal declaration of independence, a social experiment, a journey of spiritual discovery, and—to some extent—a guide to self-reliance.
Henry Thoreau's autobiographical book, in which he recounts an experiment that was far ahead of its time, has become an American classic and has influenced a wide variety of modern schools of thought, from anarcho-capitalism to ecosocialism.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Translator: Zinaida Alexandrova
Pages: 384 (offset paper). Paperback
Dimensions: 200x127x17 mm
Series: Magistral. Vstrechnoye dvizheniye
