Henry David Thoreau

Walden, czyli życie w lesie to zbiór wydanych po raz pierwszy w 1854 r. esejów kontemplacyjnych, będących zapisem eksperymentu Thoreau, który przez ponad dwa lata żył samotnie nad stawem Walden w stanie Massachusetts. Eseje te są wyznaniem wiary filozoficznej Thoreau, pochwałą życia świadomego, prostego i surowego, w bliskim kontakcie z przyrodą....

Henry David Thoreau, autor niezwykłego zbioru esejów kontemplacyjnych Walden, czyli życie w lesie, w tym tomiku daje się poznać z trzech innych esejów: tytułowego Życia bez zasad, Hodowcy ostryg z Wellfleet (należącego do zbioru Cape Cod) oraz Ostatnich dni Johna Browna. Są one wyrazem amerykańskiego transcendentalizmu, nurtu odrodzenia...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil- to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society. I wish to make an extreme statement,...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. I trust that you will pardon me for being here. I do not wish to force my thoughts upon you, but I feel forced myself. Little as I know of Captain Brown, I would fain do my part to correct the tone and the statements of the newspapers, and of my countrymen generally, respecting his character and actions. It...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. [1849, original title: Resistance to Civil Goverment...