THOREAU, H.D.: Walden (Abridged)

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862, Author.

Contributor:

Naxos Digital Services US.

Series:

Naxos Spoken Word Library.

Naxos Spoken Word Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spoken Word.

Local Subjects:

Spoken Word.

Genre:

Video recordings.

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Naxos Digital Services US Incorporated, 2001.

System Details:

Mode of access: Available online.

Contents:

Economy ( 07 min., 07 sec. )

'The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation' ( 03 min., 45 sec. )

'I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.' ( 06 min., 59 sec. )

'Not long since, a strolling Indian went to sell baskets...' ( 01 min., 31 sec. )

'My purpose in going to Walden Pond...' ( 03 min., 25 sec. )

'As for a Shelter, man did not live long on earth...' ( 06 min., 53 sec. )

'The farmer is endeavouring to solve the problem of a livelihood...' ( 02 min., 14 sec. )

'Most men appear never to have considered what a house is...' ( 03 min., 09 sec. )

'Near the end of March 1845, I borrowed an axe and went down to the woods...' ( 10 min., 24 sec. )

'I have thus a tight shingled and plastered house...' ( 08 min., 19 sec. )

'By surveying, carpentry and day-labour...' ( 02 min., 26 sec. )

'I have learned from my two years' experience...' ( 04 min., 04 sec. )

'My furniture, part of which I made myself...' ( 04 min., 05 sec. )

'For more than five years I maintained myself thus...' ( 04 min., 51 sec. )

'But all this is very selfish, I have heard some of my townsmen say,' ( 09 min., 05 sec. )

Where I lived and what I lived for ( 05 min., 36 sec. )

'When I first took up my abode in the woods...' ( 04 min., 05 sec. )

'Every morning I got up early and bathed in the pond...' ( 04 min., 43 sec. )

'Hardly a man takes a half-hour's nap after dinner...' ( 06 min., 14 sec. )

Reading ( 08 min., 14 sec. )

Sounds ( 06 min., 31 sec. )

'The Fitchburg Railroad touches the post about a hundred rods south of where I dwell.' ( 05 min., 54 sec. )

'Now that the cars are gone by and all the restless world with them..' ( 05 min., 34 sec. )

Solitude ( 09 min., 46 sec. )

Visitors ( 02 min., 40 sec. )

'Who should come to my lodge this morning but a true Homeric man...' ( 04 min., 53 sec. )

'Many a traveller came out of his way to see me...' ( 05 min., 11 sec. )

The Bean-Field ( 09 min., 56 sec. )

The Village ( 05 min., 50 sec. )

The Ponds ( 07 min., 35 sec. )

'In summer, Walden never becomes so warm as most water which is exposed to the sun..' ( 06 min., 30 sec. )

'The skaters and water-bugs finally disappear in the latter part of October..' ( 05 min., 30 sec. )

I have said that Walden has no visible inlet nor outlet...' ( 07 min., 21 sec. )

Baker Farm ( 06 min., 23 sec. )

Higher Laws ( 05 min., 24 sec. )

'I have found repeatedly, of late years, that I cannot fish without failing a little. ..' ( 10 min., 21 sec. )

Brute Neighbours ( 05 min., 27 sec. )

'I was witness to events of a less peaceful character.' ( 03 min., 39 sec. )

'Once I was surprised to see a cat walking along the stony shore of the pond..' ( 05 min., 23 sec. )

'House-Warming ( 06 min., 53 sec. )

'The pond had in the meanwhile skimmed over in the shadiest and shallowest coves..' ( 10 min., 06 sec. )

Former inhabitants; and winter visitors ( 06 min., 52 sec. )

'At this season I seldom had a visitor.' ( 05 min., 47 sec. )

Winter Animals ( 04 min., 52 sec. )

'When the ground was not yet quite covered yet..' ( 05 min., 40 sec. )

The Pond in Winter ( 08 min., 53 sec. )

'In the winter of '46-7, a hundred Irishmen with Yankee overseers..' ( 03 min., 48 sec. )

Spring ( 06 min., 28 sec. )

'What is man but a mass of thawing clay?' ( 05 min., 30 sec. )

'A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades ( 05 min., 19 sec. )

Conclusion ( 15 minutes, 23 sec. )

Participant:

Hope, William, Reader -- Thoreau, Henry David, Author

Notes:

Naxos Digital Services electronic collection.

Streaming audio.

Publisher Number:

9789626342329

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.