Thoreau: Walden / Civil Disobedience (Unabridged)

Rupert Degas

• Released on 2010-07-27 by Naxos Audiobooks
• Main artists: Rupert Degas
• Genre: Humour/Spoken Word

Digital booklet

1 Walden by Henry David Thoreau

00:05:48

Tim Clark, Editor - Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist - Nicolas Soames, Producer - Malcolm Blackmoor, Editor

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2 Walden (Unabridged): It is said that Deucalion and Pyrrha created men…

00:05:33

Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist

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3 Walden (Unabridged): When we consider what, to use the words…

00:05:09

Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist

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4 Walden (Unabridged): The greater part of what my neighbors call good…

00:06:03

Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist

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5 Walden (Unabridged): The grand necessity, then, for our bodies…

00:05:14

Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist

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6 Walden (Unabridged): I do not mean to prescribe rules to strong…

00:05:43

Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist

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7 Walden (Unabridged): Not long since, a strolling Indian went to sell baskets…

00:05:06

Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist

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8 Walden (Unabridged): As this business was to be entered into…

00:04:56

Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist

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9 Walden (Unabridged): I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes…

00:05:21

Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist

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10 Walden (Unabridged): All costume off a man is pitiful or grotesque.

00:04:58

Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist

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11 Walden (Unabridged): However, if one designs to construct a dwelling-house…

00:05:00

Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist

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12 Walden (Unabridged): If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance…

00:04:51

Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist

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13 Walden (Unabridged): As Chapman sings, 'The false society of men…'

00:04:03

Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist

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14 Walden (Unabridged): Most men appear never to have considered…

00:03:46

Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist

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15 Walden (Unabridged): We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled…

00:04:56

Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist

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DISC 2

1 Walden (Unabridged): Though we are not so degenerate but that we…

00:04:47

Tim Clark, Editor - Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist - Nicolas Soames, Producer - Malcolm Blackmoor, Editor

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2 Walden (Unabridged): By the middle of April, for I made no haste…

00:05:46

Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist

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3 Walden (Unabridged): There is some of the same fitness in a man's building…

00:06:02

Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist

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4 Walden (Unabridged): Boards … $8.03+, mostly shanty boards.

00:04:15

Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist

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5 Walden (Unabridged): How could youths better learn to live than by at once…

00:05:18

Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist

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6 Walden (Unabridged): This spending of the best part of one's life earning money…

00:05:14

Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist

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7 Walden (Unabridged): Granted that some public works would not have been constructed…

00:05:16

Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist

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8 Walden (Unabridged): Yes, I did eat $8.74, all told; but I should not thus unblushingly…

00:04:57

Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist

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9 Walden (Unabridged): In cold weather it was no little amusement to bake…

00:04:52

Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist

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10 Walden (Unabridged): Thus I could avoid all trade and barter, so far as my food…

00:05:41

Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist

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11 Walden (Unabridged): A lady once offered me a mat, but as I had no room to spare…

00:05:10

Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist

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12 Walden (Unabridged): As I preferred some things to others, and especially valued…

00:05:01

Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist

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13 Walden (Unabridged): While my townsmen and women are devoted in so many ways…

00:05:08

Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist

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14 Walden (Unabridged): If you give him money, he will perhaps buy more rags with it.

00:04:13

Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist

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15 Walden (Unabridged): Being a microcosm himself, he discovers…

00:03:59

Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist

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DISC 3

1 Walden (Unabridged): Complemental Verses: … The Pretensions of Poverty

00:05:23

Tim Clark, Editor - Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist - Nicolas Soames, Producer - Malcolm Blackmoor, Editor

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2 Walden (Unabridged): The real attractions of the Hollowell farm, to me…

00:05:23

Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist

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3 Walden (Unabridged): I was seated by the shore of a small pond…

00:05:28

Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist

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4 Walden (Unabridged): Morning brings back the heroic ages.

00:05:44

Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist

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5 Walden (Unabridged): In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life…

00:04:40

Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist

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6 Walden (Unabridged): For my part, I could easily do without the post-office.

00:04:35

Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist

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7 Walden (Unabridged): I have read in a Hindoo book, that 'there was a king's son…'

00:06:00

Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist

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8 Walden (Unabridged): Reading: With a little more deliberation in the choice…

00:04:57

Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist

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9 Walden (Unabridged): The crowds of men who merely spoke the Greek and Latin tongues…

00:05:26

Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist

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10 Walden (Unabridged): The works of the great poets have never yet been read…

00:06:05

Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist

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11 Walden (Unabridged): I aspire to be acquainted with wiser men than this…

00:03:32

Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist

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12 Walden (Unabridged): It is time that we had uncommon schools…

00:03:17

Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist

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13 Walden (Unabridged): Sounds: But while we are confined to books…

00:04:27

Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist

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14 Walden (Unabridged): It was pleasant to see my whole household effects…

00:04:01

Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist

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15 Walden (Unabridged): The Fitchburg Railroad touches the pond…

00:02:53

Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist

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16 Walden (Unabridged): I watch the passage of the morning cars with the same feeling…

00:03:39

Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist

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DISC 4

1 Walden (Unabridged): What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise…

00:05:36

Tim Clark, Editor - Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist - Nicolas Soames, Producer - Malcolm Blackmoor, Editor

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2 Walden (Unabridged): While these things go up other things come down.

00:05:25

Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist

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3 Walden (Unabridged): When other birds are still, the screech owls…

00:05:30

Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist

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4 Walden (Unabridged): I am not sure that I ever heard the sound of cock-crowing…

00:03:03

Henry David Thoreau, Composer - Rupert Degas, Artist, MainArtist

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About the album

• 10 disc(s) - 142 track(s)
• Total length: 11:41:35
• 1 Digital booklet

• Main artists: Rupert Degas
• Composer: Henry David Thoreau
• Label: Naxos Audiobooks
• Genre: Humour/Spoken Word
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Digital booklet

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