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American Renaissance · Memoir, philosophy
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau’s experiment beside Walden Pond becomes a critique of conformity, materialism, labor, and unexamined life.
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- Date
- 1854
- Origin
- United States
- Genre
- Memoir, philosophy
- Canon tier
- Essential core
- Difficulty
- Moderate
- Length
- Medium
- Collection
- The Western Canon
Subjects and themes
Why it matters
Thoreau’s experiment beside Walden Pond becomes a critique of conformity, materialism, labor, and unexamined life.
This work is included on the basis of bloom / harvard. Its cataloged influence level is 5 out of 5.
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