Thoreau's Walden

The transcendental philosophy and self-reliance espoused by Ralph Waldo Emerson in his writings form the basis of Henry David Thoreau's experiment at Walden Pond, detailed in Walden. Walden offers Thoreau's reduction of life and the process of existence to its simplest form. It describes and narrates Thoreau's life on Walden Pond, surviving without reliance on the offerings of commerce or industry. In Walden Thoreau reje

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