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Written by Henry David Thoreau - Audio book performed by William Hope with classical music of the period - Abridged Nonfiction - 4 CASSETTES - 5 hours

Publisher, Naxos Audiobooks (August 2001)

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In 1845 Henry David Thoreau, one of the principal New England Transcendentalists, left the town for the country. Beside the lake of Walden, he built himself a log cabin and returned to nature, to observe and reflect - while surviving on eight dollars a year. From this experience emerged one of the great classics of American literature, a deeply personal reaction against the commercialism and materialism that he saw as the main impulses of mid-19th century America.