
Thoreau: Walden / Civil Disobedience
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Rupert Degas
In 1845 Henry David Thoreau, one of the principal New England Transcendentalists, left the small town of Concord for the country. Beside the lake of Walden he built himself a log cabin and returned to nature, to observe and reflect – while surviving on eight dollars a year.
From this experience emerged Walden, one of the great classics of American literature, and a deeply personal reaction against the commercialism and materialism that Thoreau saw as the main impulses of mid-19th-century America. Here also is Civil Disobedience, Thoreau’s essay on just resistance to government, which not only challenged the establishment of his day but has been used as a flag for later campaigners from Mahatma Ghandi to Dr Martin Luther King.
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Great book and narration
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Great listen / read! I’m a fan
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How did the narrator detract from the book?
The reader conveyed a persistent tone of anger, resentment and scorn. Never just thoughtful. I kept wondering what voice I would have heard reading the actual book and how reading it myself would have changed my experience of the book.One-note
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Superb
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I listened to this because a recent speaker quoted from it. I found it as fresh and relevant to daily life and humanity as when it was written. If you have no patience for the ritual of the world and want to get to the heart of the matter, this book delivers now and well into the future. It is timeless and amazing both. You will find it worthwhile.A classic for a reason and just as fresh in 2012.
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Simpler times
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Awesome
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'Walden' is beautifully written, a literary gem. The words can phrases can almost be savoured and appreciated. The subject matter idyllic with wonderful values.
Unfortunately, its wisdom could only be applied with great difficulty and a set of hugely life-threatening circumstances in today's world. Or perhaps this is only true where I live.
But it is dreamy. A kind of Utopia.
On a personal level, i did find myself getting distracted and rather bored in sections involving lengthy descriptions of nature.
5 Stars as a literary work, 3 for personal enjoyment.
A Literary Gem
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I want to find my own place in the wilderness now, and plant beans and subsist on rice.
Over a century and a half and this is still as relevant, possibly more so, as the day it was published. with the exception that the great classics are available in English today without having to learn Greek to read The Iliad. Include this in your collection, you won't be sorry. I've listened to this many times now, and will likely never tire of it.
This is a must read.
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A Great Listen and a Classic
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