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Walden (Translated): A 21st Century, Modernized Translation
This modernized translation of Walden:
rewords the outdated, formal language of the original text,uses simple, conversational style to depict experiences and preserve Thoreau’s philosophies, ideas, and transcendentalist significance,removes ancient Greek/Roman literature/mythology references, andadds chapter sub-headings for easy subject reference points.Walden is a book too important not to read.
Considered Henry Thoreau’s masterwork and an American literary classic, Walden is not only a philosophical essay on labor, leisure, self-reliance, and individualism, but also an influential piece of nature writing that enthusiastically advocates his minimalist views and life choice to, – “Simplify, Simplify!” Lives have been impacted by reading Walden and volumes written about it by scholars, nature experts, PhD candidates, college freshmen, and high school English teachers alike.
But for many, Walden is anything but simple, regarded as too great a challenge because of the complex writing style and 19th century language hurdles, and left on a shelf to collect dust. Until now!
Walden, A 21st Century, Modernized Translation is intended for a new generation of readers. Anyone who’s thought about testing the waters of Walden, even tried, but admits to missing the point of the book for the challenging language, this version is easy to read and understand and an opportunity to walk the shoreline, explore the wooded hillsides around Walden Pond, and plunge headfirst into the heart and soul of Henry Thoreau’s enduring views on nonconformity, self-sufficient living in natural surroundings, and the higher principles of a simple, inspired life.
Scroll up and click “Buy Now” to order your copy and enjoy a casual read through the seasonal fireside musings of American Literature’s beloved, outspoken Transcendentalist that still retain relevance in the modern world.
rewords the outdated, formal language of the original text,uses simple, conversational style to depict experiences and preserve Thoreau’s philosophies, ideas, and transcendentalist significance,removes ancient Greek/Roman literature/mythology references, andadds chapter sub-headings for easy subject reference points.Walden is a book too important not to read.
Considered Henry Thoreau’s masterwork and an American literary classic, Walden is not only a philosophical essay on labor, leisure, self-reliance, and individualism, but also an influential piece of nature writing that enthusiastically advocates his minimalist views and life choice to, – “Simplify, Simplify!” Lives have been impacted by reading Walden and volumes written about it by scholars, nature experts, PhD candidates, college freshmen, and high school English teachers alike.
But for many, Walden is anything but simple, regarded as too great a challenge because of the complex writing style and 19th century language hurdles, and left on a shelf to collect dust. Until now!
Walden, A 21st Century, Modernized Translation is intended for a new generation of readers. Anyone who’s thought about testing the waters of Walden, even tried, but admits to missing the point of the book for the challenging language, this version is easy to read and understand and an opportunity to walk the shoreline, explore the wooded hillsides around Walden Pond, and plunge headfirst into the heart and soul of Henry Thoreau’s enduring views on nonconformity, self-sufficient living in natural surroundings, and the higher principles of a simple, inspired life.
Scroll up and click “Buy Now” to order your copy and enjoy a casual read through the seasonal fireside musings of American Literature’s beloved, outspoken Transcendentalist that still retain relevance in the modern world.
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Published March 5, 2023
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Henry David Thoreau
2,420 books6,740 followersHenry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, philosopher, and abolitionist who is best known for Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.
Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism.
In 1817, Henry David Thoreau was born in Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University in 1837, taught briefly, then turned to writing and lecturing. Becoming a Transcendentalist and good friend of Emerson, Thoreau lived the life of simplicity he advocated in his writings. His two-year experience in a hut in Walden, on land owned by Emerson, resulted in the classic, Walden: Life in the Woods (1854). During his sojourn there, Thoreau refused to pay a poll tax in protest of slavery and the Mexican war, for which he was jailed overnight. His activist convictions were expressed in the groundbreaking On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (1849). In a diary he noted his disapproval of attempts to convert the Algonquins "from their own superstitions to new ones." In a journal he noted dryly that it is appropriate for a church to be the ugliest building in a village, "because it is the one in which human nature stoops to the lowest and is the most disgraced." (Cited by James A. Haught in 2000 Years of Disbelief.) When Parker Pillsbury sought to talk about religion with Thoreau as he was dying from tuberculosis, Thoreau replied: "One world at a time."
Thoreau's philosophy of nonviolent resistance influenced the political thoughts and actions of such later figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas K. Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr. D. 1862.
More: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/tho...
http://thoreau.eserver.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Da...
http://transcendentalism-legacy.tamu....
http://www.biography.com/people/henry...
Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism.
In 1817, Henry David Thoreau was born in Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University in 1837, taught briefly, then turned to writing and lecturing. Becoming a Transcendentalist and good friend of Emerson, Thoreau lived the life of simplicity he advocated in his writings. His two-year experience in a hut in Walden, on land owned by Emerson, resulted in the classic, Walden: Life in the Woods (1854). During his sojourn there, Thoreau refused to pay a poll tax in protest of slavery and the Mexican war, for which he was jailed overnight. His activist convictions were expressed in the groundbreaking On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (1849). In a diary he noted his disapproval of attempts to convert the Algonquins "from their own superstitions to new ones." In a journal he noted dryly that it is appropriate for a church to be the ugliest building in a village, "because it is the one in which human nature stoops to the lowest and is the most disgraced." (Cited by James A. Haught in 2000 Years of Disbelief.) When Parker Pillsbury sought to talk about religion with Thoreau as he was dying from tuberculosis, Thoreau replied: "One world at a time."
Thoreau's philosophy of nonviolent resistance influenced the political thoughts and actions of such later figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas K. Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr. D. 1862.
More: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/tho...
http://thoreau.eserver.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Da...
http://transcendentalism-legacy.tamu....
http://www.biography.com/people/henry...
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