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Walden or, Life in the Woods
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What should our first book be?
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Walden it is. Next book Oui, July 1978
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Unanimous Decision. Please read Walden by May 31. Next book will be our summer selection, to be read between June 1 to August 31st. Oui, July 1978 is in tune with the season. Will open up a new discussion.
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Unanimous Decision. Please read Walden by May 31. Next book will be our summer selection, to be read between June 1 to August 31st...."
Thanks for joining Amanda. Hope everybody's picked up and started reading Walden!
Walden (/ˈwɔːldən/; first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is a book by transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and—to some degree—a manual for self-reliance.[2]
First published in 1854, Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau used this time (July 4, 1845 - September 6, 1847) to write his first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. The experience later inspired Walden, in which Thoreau compresses the time into a single calendar year and uses passages of four seasons to symbolize human development.