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Walden

Michael T. Dolan

Published2006

Pages135

Formatpaperback

PublisherConversari House

Narrative History Discovery and exploration Identity (psychology)Student collection Fiction Mystery

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WALDEN tells the tragic and poignant story of Walden XVI, a student at University struggling to find his identity. Live just one day through Walden's eyes and you'll discover an unforgettable tale of freedom and revolution that is both hilarious and tragic. This tightly-woven narrative is a journey of discovery that will stop you in your tracks.

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“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

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“Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made.”

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“Things do not change; we change.”

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“I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would exercise their minds as much as mathematics.”

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