Written by Henry David Thoreau
Read by Gordon McKenzie (Librivox.org)
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 256 Kbps
Unabridged A high-quality narration of Henry David Thoreau's Walden. Found on http://librivox.org, a public domaim audiobook database of legal book narrations. Source specifically from http://www.archive.org/download/walden_librivox/walden_librivox_64kb_mp3.zip, but tagged and edited by liguhy. Source exactly same except for Librivox credit moved to each track end instead of beginning, and volume normalized. Contains complete tags including album art - tag titles broken up by chapter (two chapters have multiple tracks however). Reading is just Walden itself and does not include any preludes, introductions, appendices, or annotations (like the cover art's actual book contains). Author: Henry David Thoreau
Album: Album Walden
Genre: Audiobook
Narrator: Gordon McKenzie
Publisher: Librivox.org
Year: 2006
Channels: 2 (stereo)
Sample Rate: 44.1 KHz{CR}
Sample Size: 16 bit
Bit Rate: 256 kbps
Encoder: LAME3.92U
Audio Quality Very High (Lossy)
Contains Album Art, ID Tag [ID3v2.3 (ANSI) & ID3v1.1] Walden by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau's life for two years, two months, and two days around the shores of Walden Pond. Walden is neither a novel nor a true autobiography, but a social critique of the Western World, with each chapter heralding some aspect of humanity that needed to be either renounced or praised. Along with his critique of the civilized world, Thoreau examines other issues afflicting man in society, ranging from economy and reading to solitude and higher laws. He also takes time to talk about the experience at Walden Pond itself, commenting on the animals and the way people treated him for living there, using those experiences to bring out his philosophical positions. This extended commentary on nature has often been interpreted as a strong statement to the natural religion that transcendentalists like Thoreau and Emerson were preaching.