Walden /
Henry David Thoreau ; edición de Javier Alcoriza y Antonio Lastra ; traducción de Javier Alcoriza y Antonio Lastra
- 1a ed.
- Stilwell : Digireads.com Book, 2005
- 357 p. : il. ; 18 cm
- Letras universales ; 375 .
Inclou bibliografía (p. 53-57).
Walden (first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self-reliance. First published in 1854, it details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts. The book compresses the time into a single calendar year and uses passages of four seasons to symbolize human development.