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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) By virtue of its casual, off-handedly brilliant wisdom and the easy splendor of its nature writing, Thoreau's account of his adventure in self-reliance on the shores of a pond in Massachusetts is one of the signposts by which the modern mind has located itself in an increasingly bewildering world. Deeply sane, invigorating in its awareness of humanity's place in the moral and natural order, Walden represents the progressive spirit of nineteenth-century America at its eloquent best.Henry David Thoreau is the author of 'Walden (Everyman's Library)', published 1993 under ISBN 9780679418962 and ISBN 0679418962.
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