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Walden

ByHenry David Thoreau

American poet Robert Frost wrote of Thoreau, "In one book ... he surpasses everything we have had in America." Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson judged Thoreau’s endorsement of living alone in natural simplicity, apart from modern society, to be a mark of effeminacy, calling it "womanish solicitude; for there is something unmanly, something almost dastardly" about the lifestyle. Poet John Greenleaf Whittier criticized what he perceived as the message in Walden that man should lower himself to the level of a woodchuck and walk on four legs. He said: "Thoreau's Walden is a capital reading, but very wicked and heathenish... After all, for me, I prefer walking on two legs"

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Publication Date
Aug 18, 2011
Language
English
ISBN
9781447825036
Category
Fiction
Copyright
All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
Contributors
By (author): Henry David Thoreau

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EPUB

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