{"product_id":"walden-american-classics-edition-harpercollins-american-classics","title":"Walden American Classics Edition (Harpercollins American Classics)","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne Of The Library Of CongressS Books That Shaped AmericaOne Of The GuardianS 100 Best Nonfiction BooksWalden...Is Arguably The Most Important Work Of Literary Nonfiction In The American Canon.New York Timesin Celebration Of The 250Th Anniversary Of The United States, Harpercollins Is Proud To Present This Library Of American Classics Drawn From Our Storied Catalog. Walden Is A Foundational Transcendentalist Treatise From Henry David Thoreau On SelfReliance, Simplicity, And How To Escape The Corruption And Consumerism Of Modern Society.I Went To The Woods Because I Wished To Live Deliberately.On July 4, 1845, Henry David Thoreau Began A TwoYear Experiment: Living Alone In A SelfBuilt Hut On The Edge Of Walden Pond Outside Of Concord, Massachusetts, To Front Only The Essential Facts Of Life, And See If I Could Not Learn What It Had To Teach, And Not, When I Came To Die, Discover That I Had Not Lived. Having Observed And Condemned Changes In 19Th Century Society  Increasing Materialism, Urbanism, And Injustice From The State  Thoreau Endeavored To Adopt A Lifestyle In Opposition To These Modern Vices. Walden Is The Account Of How And Why Thoreau Lived During This Time, And His Conclusions About The Natural World And HumanityS Place In It.Rich With Detailed Observations On New EnglandS Woods And The Bottomless Walden Pond, Layered With Analysis Of The Philosophers That Inspired ThoreauS Unusual Project, And Framed By The Passage Of The Four Seasons, Walden Became A Foundational Text Of The Transcendentalist Movement And Is Now Accepted As One Of The Most Important Works Of American Literature, Changing The Course Of Western Psychology, Political Philosophy, And The Tradition Of Nature Writing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47958429991157,"sku":"DADAX0063481588","price":27.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/5804\/8501\/files\/61VJcQB2tCL.jpg?v=1775573572","url":"https:\/\/ergodebooks.com\/products\/walden-american-classics-edition-harpercollins-american-classics","provider":"Ergodebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}