Walden

Description

Walden first published in 1854 as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is a book by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon the author's simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and—to some degree—a manual for self-reliance. Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau makes precise scientific observations of nature as well as metaphorical and poetic uses of natural phenomena. He identifies many plants and animals by both their popular and scientific names, records in detail the color and clarity of different bodies of water, precisely dates and describes the freezing and thawing of the pond, and recounts his experiments to measure the depth and shape of the bottom of the supposedly "bottomless" Walden Pond. (Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden))

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Other Editions

• WaldenpaperbackCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform2018-10-25
• Walden, or Life in the Woods, and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Signet Classics)Signet Classics1942-07-01
• Walden and Civil DisobediencePaperbackPeter Smith Publisher Inc1965-06-01
• WaldenF. Watts1969-01-01
• WaldenLibrary BindingBuccaneer Books1983-08-01
• Walden LPHarperCollins2000-04-01