Walden

Resource Information

The work Walden represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Internet Archive - Open Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Walden

Statement of responsibility

Henry David Thoreau ; with an introduction and annotations by Bill McKibben

Creator

• Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862

Subject

• Massachusetts -- Walden Woods
• Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
• Manners and customs
• Natural history
• Biography
• Wilderness areas -- Massachusetts | Walden Woods
• Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Homes and haunts -- Massachusetts | Walden Woods
• 1800 - 1899
• Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography
• Solitude
• Solitude
• Wilderness areas
• Natural history -- Massachusetts | Walden Woods
• Walden Woods (Mass.) -- Social life and customs
• Authors, American
• Homes

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

Recent Thoreau scholarship has concentrated on Thoreau as prescient forest ecologist; McKibben - author of the End of Nature and one of our best-read social and environmental critics - places him firmly back in his role as cultural and spiritual seer. McKibben identifies two questions asked by Thoreau as central to a late-twentieth-century reading of Walden: "How much is enough?" and "How do I know what I want?" Questions, McKibben reminds us, that must come to dominate the end of the twentieth century if we are to live well into the twenty-first. McKibben's relevant and lively introduction and annotations to the 1854 edition make us see Walden as, among other things, a way to think about how we use our time, how we spend our money - how to live essential lives

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 818/.303
• B

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3048

LC item number

.A1 1997

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography