{"product_id":"where-i-lived-and-what-i-lived-for-paperback","title":"Where I Lived, and What I Lived for - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHenry David Thoreau\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin's Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of history's most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged with a unique type-driven design that highlights the bookmaker's art. Offering great literature in great packages at great prices, this series is ideal for those readers who want to explore and savor the Great Ideas that have shaped our world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThoreau's account of his solitary and self-sufficient home in the New England woods remains an inspiration to the environmental movement--a call to his fellow men to abandon their striving, materialistic existences of 'quiet desperation' for a simple life within their means, finding spiritual truth through awareness of the sheer beauty of their surroundings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenry David Thoreau\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1817. He graduated from Harvard in 1837, the same year he began his lifelong Journal. Inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thoreau became a key member of the Transcendentalist movement that included Margaret Fuller and Bronson Alcott. The Transcendentalists' faith in nature was tested by Thoreau between 1845 and 1847 when he lived for twenty-six months in a homemade hut at Walden Pond. While living at Walden, Thoreau worked on the two books published during his lifetime: \u003cb\u003eWalden\u003c\/b\u003e (1854) and \u003cb\u003eA Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers\u003c\/b\u003e (1849). Several of his other works, including \u003cb\u003eThe Maine Woods, Cape Cod\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eExcursions\u003c\/b\u003e, were published posthumously. Thoreau died in Concord, at the age of forty-four, in 1862.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 7 x 4.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 30, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51753708454176,"sku":"9780143037583","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/532d964d52ae842f8ae7c1617a4fbbd5.webp?v=1780025982","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/where-i-lived-and-what-i-lived-for-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}