(美)梭罗 著，王光林　译

About the Author

Henry David Thoreau, the renowned American transcendentalist philosopher and naturalist, was born in 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts, where he spent much of his life immersed in the rhythms of nature and the pursuit of self-reliance. A graduate of Harvard College, Thoreau worked briefly as a teacher and surveyor before dedicating himself to writing and activism, including his staunch abolitionist stance and civil disobedience principles that influenced figures like Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. His seminal work, Walden, chronicles his two-year experiment in simple living by Walden Pond, offering profound reflections on society, economy, and the human spirit. Translated into Chinese by Wang Guanglin in the acclaimed World famous collection: Walden (famous full translation)(Chinese Edition), Thoreau's timeless wisdom continues to inspire readers worldwide to seek harmony with the natural world and question conventional norms.