Walden

Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau's Walden (1854) records the two years he spent living simply in a cabin he built on the shore of Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. Part memoir, part social criticism, part spiritual manifesto, it champions self-reliance, deliberate living, and communion with nature against the 'quiet desperation' of materialist society. A cornerstone of American Transcendentalism and of environmental thought, it asks what is truly necessary for a good and deliberate life.

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Epigraph
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
Chapter XIII
Chapter XIV
Chapter XV
Chapter XVI
Chapter XVII
Chapter XVIII

Walden

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