THOREAU, H.D.: Walden (Abridged)

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Label: Naxos AudioBooks

Genre: Philosophy

Catalogue No: NA423212

Barcode: 9789626342329

Release Date: 06/2001

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Disc 1

Thoreau, Henry David - Author

Walden

Hope, William (Reader)

Economy

07:07

Hope, William (Reader)

'The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation'

03:45

Hope, William (Reader)

'I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.'

06:59

Hope, William (Reader)

'Not long since, a strolling Indian went to sell baskets...'

01:31

Hope, William (Reader)

'My purpose in going to Walden Pond...'

03:25

Hope, William (Reader)

'As for a Shelter, man did not live long on earth...'

06:53

Hope, William (Reader)

'The farmer is endeavouring to solve the problem of a livelihood...'

02:14

Hope, William (Reader)

'Most men appear never to have considered what a house is...'

03:09

Hope, William (Reader)

'Near the end of March 1845, I borrowed an axe and went down to the woods...'

10:24

Hope, William (Reader)

'I have thus a tight shingled and plastered house...'

08:19

Hope, William (Reader)

'By surveying, carpentry and day-labour...'

02:26

Hope, William (Reader)

'I have learned from my two years' experience...'

04:04

Hope, William (Reader)

'My furniture, part of which I made myself...'

04:05

Hope, William (Reader)

'For more than five years I maintained myself thus...'

04:51

Hope, William (Reader)

'But all this is very selfish, I have heard some of my townsmen say,'

09:05

Hope, William (Reader)

Disc 2

Where I lived and what I lived for

05:36

Hope, William (Reader)

'When I first took up my abode in the woods...'

04:05

Hope, William (Reader)

'Every morning I got up early and bathed in the pond...'

04:43

Hope, William (Reader)

'Hardly a man takes a half-hour's nap after dinner...'

06:14

Hope, William (Reader)

Reading

08:14

Hope, William (Reader)

Sounds

06:31

Hope, William (Reader)

'The Fitchburg Railroad touches the post about a hundred rods south of where I dwell.'

05:54

Hope, William (Reader)

'Now that the cars are gone by and all the restless world with them..'

05:34

Hope, William (Reader)

Solitude

09:46

Hope, William (Reader)

Visitors

02:40

Hope, William (Reader)

'Who should come to my lodge this morning but a true Homeric man...'

04:53

Hope, William (Reader)

'Many a traveller came out of his way to see me...'

05:11

Hope, William (Reader)

The Bean-Field

09:56

Hope, William (Reader)

Disc 3

The Village

05:50

Hope, William (Reader)

The Ponds

07:35

Hope, William (Reader)

'In summer, Walden never becomes so warm as most water which is exposed to the sun..'

06:30

Hope, William (Reader)

'The skaters and water-bugs finally disappear in the latter part of October..'

05:30

Hope, William (Reader)

I have said that Walden has no visible inlet nor outlet...'

07:21

Hope, William (Reader)

Baker Farm

06:23

Hope, William (Reader)

Higher Laws

05:24

Hope, William (Reader)

'I have found repeatedly, of late years, that I cannot fish without failing a little. ..'

10:21

Hope, William (Reader)

Brute Neighbours

05:27

Hope, William (Reader)

'I was witness to events of a less peaceful character.'

03:39

Hope, William (Reader)

'Once I was surprised to see a cat walking along the stony shore of the pond..'

05:23

Hope, William (Reader)

'House-Warming

06:53

Hope, William (Reader)

Disc 4

'The pond had in the meanwhile skimmed over in the shadiest and shallowest coves..'

10:06

Hope, William (Reader)

Former inhabitants; and winter visitors

06:52

Hope, William (Reader)

'At this season I seldom had a visitor.'

05:47

Hope, William (Reader)

Winter Animals

04:52

Hope, William (Reader)

'When the ground was not yet quite covered yet..'

05:40

Hope, William (Reader)

The Pond in Winter

08:53

Hope, William (Reader)

'In the winter of '46-7, a hundred Irishmen with Yankee overseers..'

03:48

Hope, William (Reader)

Spring

06:28

Hope, William (Reader)

'What is man but a mass of thawing clay?'

05:30

Hope, William (Reader)

'A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades

05:19

Hope, William (Reader)

Conclusion

15:23

Hope, William (Reader)

Total Playing Time: 05:12:28