Walden, Or, Life in the Woods

by Thoreau, Henry David

• ISBN13: 9780486284958
• ISBN10: 0486284956
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780486132532
• Edition: Unabridged
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-04-12
• Publisher: Dover Publications
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Summary

One of the great books of American letters and a masterpiece of reflective philosophizing. Accounts of Thoreau's daily life on the shores of Walden Pond outside Concord, Massachusetts, are interwoven with musings on the virtues of self-reliance and individual freedom, on society, government, and other topics.

Author Biography

Essayist, poet, and philosopher, Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) ranks among America's foremost nature writers. The Concord, Massachusetts native spent most of his life observing the natural world of New England, and his thoughts on leading a simple, independent life are captured in his best-known work, Walden.

Table of Contents

Economy	p. 1
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For	p. 53
Reading	p. 64
Sounds	p. 72
Solitude	p. 84
Visitors	p. 90
The Bean-Field	p. 100
The Village	p. 108
The Ponds	p. 112
Baker Farm	p. 130
Higher Laws	p. 136
Brute Neighbors	p. 144
House-Warming	p. 153
Former Inhabitants; and Winter Visitors	p. 165
Winter Animals	p. 175
The Pond in Winter	p. 182
Spring	p. 193
Conclusion	p. 206
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