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Walden and Other Writings
Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book) | Henry David Thoreau
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Henry David Thoreau's vision of personal freedom is indelibly etched on the American consciousness. 'We need the tonic of wildness,' Thoreau wrote in Walden, and by turning his back on town amenities to build a house on Walden Pond in 1845, he helped shape our notions of the individual, subsistence, and a moral relation to nature. Raising white beans and potatoes that he sold to his Concord neighbors, he stayed for two years; his book records both the philosophy he developed while living alone and the facts of his everyday life. Included here with the complete text of Walden are selections from Thoreau's first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers; 'A Plea for Captain John Brown,' his eloquent defense of the American abolitionist's rebellion at Harper's Ferry, and such masterpieces as his famous essay 'Civil Disobedience,' in which he describes a night spent in prison for refusing to pay a poll tax to a government that condoned slavery.
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KatieDid927
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This is out the door and headed your way @kspenmoll and should arrive on Thursday! #poetryswap #summerpoetryswap

@Chrissyreadit @TheBookHippie

kspenmoll So excited!!!! 3y
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KatieDid927
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This arrived yesterday! Thanks so much @DebinHawaii , can‘t wait! I‘m shipping mine out tomorrow morning. #poetryswap #summerpoetryswap

@Chrissyreadit @TheBookHippie

TheBookHippie Yay!! 3y
Chrissyreadit 🙌😍🎉🙌 3y
DebinHawaii Yay! 🎉 So happy it made it as scheduled! 3y
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FrancineCallaloosoup
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Starting off the #readathon with some heavy lifting.

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Tex2Flo
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#bookriot Day 28-fall colors. Taking both a literal and ethereal approach with my images of autumn.

KarenUK 🙌🙌💕 7y
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peacelettersandlove
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I'm reading Walden, but this bookmark my boyfriend gave me has a great L.M. Montgomery quote!

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peacelettersandlove
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"The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly."

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