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Written by Henry David Thoreau - Audio book performed by Archibald MacLeish - Abridged Nonfiction - 1 CASSETTE - 1.5 hours

Publisher, Harper Audio (April 1998)

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."

Those unforgettable words echo with as much truth today as when Henry David Thoreau wrote them more than a century and a half ago.

In 1845, Thoreau leased some land owned by his friend and mentor, Ralph Waldo Emerson on Walden Pond near Concord, Mass., and lived in a cabin on it for exactly two years, two months, and two days. More than just an experiment in living on a basic level, the experience gave Thoreau the chance to make keen observations on the world around him, and on the natural beauty surrounding him that inspired his philosophical approach to the complexities of life.

What emerges, and is captured in this audiobook, is not just a guide to spiritual growth, but a different way of looking at life in general in a purer, more simple, and satisfying way. An authentically American classic, Walden not only explores the soul of the searching Thoreau, but also plumbs the depths of the American experience, defining what it means to be a truly free person, and distilling the essence of our relationship to Nature.

Walden establishes its literary authority with clear, straightforward, yet remarkably refined and graceful language . . . the kind you never tire of listening to.