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Walden, or Life in the Woods

[ wawl-duhn ]

noun

  1. a book of philosophical observations (1854) by Thoreau.


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His name was Henry David Thoreau, and in his contemplative 1854 classic, “Walden: Or, Life in the Woods,” the famous naturalist, essayist and philosopher described Freeman and some of the other formerly enslaved inhabitants of the land.

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“Walden” borrows its name from Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden; or, Life in the Woods,” a memoir, harangue, self-help manual and work of autofiction rolled into one clothbound volume.

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But Thoreau’s experiment, immortalized in “Walden; or, Life in the Woods,” became the world’s most famous act of social distancing.

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Walden Pond, where Henry David Thoreau settled in semi-seclusion for nearly two years while working on his journals and on “Walden; or, Life in the Woods.”

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His second book, “Walden; or, Life in the Woods,” based on his experience of living in a one-room cabin and in a state of rural semi-self-quarantine, found more readers.

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