Reached Concord in 1844, was already turning Concord into a suburb Technology in the form of the Fi tchburg railroad, which Of Boston which showed this shift from an agrarian to an industrial Thoreau lived nearly all his life inĬoncord, Massachusetts, a small town about twenty miles west Henry David Thoreau (born 1817, died 1862) lived duringĪ time in America's history when business and technology were beginning To give them some basic historical and biographical background about In preparing students to read Walden the teacher will want Students to grasp the practical implications of Thoreau's ideas. This teacher's guide attempts to extend McKibben's approach to Walden into specific activities and questions that will help Of life as we enter the twenty-first century. Volume," a book that can help the reader to cope with real problems The reader to a coherent view of the book as a "practical environmentalist's Bill McKibben, in his introductionĪnd annotations to this edition of Walden, attempts to guide Remarkably rich in ideas and images, it can be approached throughĪ wide variety of reading strategies. Yields new insights no matter how many times one reads it. Henry David Thoreau's Walden is one of those rare books that Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.Teachers' Guide: Walden: Introduction and Annotations by Bill McKibben This guide was made possible by a grant from The John D. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines.
Both give rewarding insight into a free-minded, principled and idiosyncratic life.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Civil Disobedience, also included in this volume, expresses his antislavery and antiwar sentiments, and has influenced resistance movements worldwide.
But Thoreau's embrace of solitude and simplicity did not entail a withdrawal from social and political matters. Walden, the account of his stay near Walden Pond, conveys at once a naturalist’s wonder at the commonplace and a transcendentalist’s yearning for spiritual truth and self-reliance. A transcendentalist classic on social responsibility and a manifesto that inspired modern protest movementsĬritical of 19th-century America’s booming commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thoreau moved to a small cabin in the woods of Concord, Massachusetts in 1845.
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