[DOWNLOAD] "Walden" by Henry David Thoreau ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Walden
- Author : Henry David Thoreau
- Release Date : January 01, 2014
- Genre: Biographies & Memoirs,Books,Reference,Foreign Languages,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 37999 KB
Description
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) is best known for his ideas about individual liberty. He was an abolitionist, attacking the Fugitive Slave Law, and he wrote a famous essay, On Civil Disobedience, advocating resistance to unjust laws. He influenced Gandhi and Martin Luther King. He spent a night in jail in opposition to the Mexican-American War.
His most famous work is Walden, a uniquely American mixture of dissidence, transcendental philosophy, natural science, self-reliance, and iconoclasm. The book is filled with memorable lines and thought-provoking challenges to conventional assumptions, against a background of living in the woods by Walden Pond in Massachusetts.
In this language illustrated edition, Michael Clay Thompson encourages us to read at "thought speed" (rather than "talk speed") which is much slower and deeper, pausing for the processing of profound ideas and special language, and looking up strange words, place names, and other references. He shows us Thoreau's extraordinary number of references to Greek and Roman mythology, and interdisciplinary vocabulary.
Glossary words explain words that may be unfamiliar, and MCT illustrates the text with examples of style and grammatical devices.
Fitting in with the Common Core, this is the third book of our American Autobiographies Trilogy. The books, though very different from one another, reveal in astonishing immediacy the thoughts and experiences of the writers against a background and description of the times they lived in, and show the contributions they made to the way we live and think now.