Walden ou la vie dans les bois

Written by Henry David Thoreau

Narrated by Guillaum Costanza

En 1845, l'écrivain et philosophe Henry David Thoreau, se retire seul pour deux ans et 2 mois, en pleine nature dans une cabane de sa confection. De cette expérience il concevra un récit introspectif au fil des saisons qui deviendra un grand classique de la littérature américaine. Je gagnai les bois parce que je voulais vivre suivant mûre réflexion, n'affronter que les actes essentiels de la vie, et voir si je ne pourrais apprendre ce qu'elle avait à enseigner, non pas, quand je viendrais à mourir, découvrir que je n'avais pas vécu. Henry David Thoreau

• Language: Français
• Publisher: Editions Theleme from W. F. Howes
• Release date: Mar 15, 2018
• ISBN: 9791025603871

Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts. He spent time as a school teacher after attending Harvard College but was dismissed for his refusal to administer corporal punishment. In 1845, wanting to write his first book, he moved to Walden Pond and built his cabin on land owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It was during his time at Walden that Thoreau was imprisoned briefly for not paying taxes; this experience became the basis for his well-known essay "Civil Disobedience." He died of tuberculosis in 1862 at the age of 44.