Walden

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General Note:	Abridged.
Participant or Performer Note:	Narrator: William Hope.
Summary, etc.:	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-nineteenth-century America.
Target Audience Note:	Text Difficulty 12 1420 Lexile.
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