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Nature · Essays · American literature

Walden

By Henry David Thoreau

A cabin, a pond, and a closer look at how we live.

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Henry David Thoreau builds a small cabin near Walden Pond and turns the practical details of daily life into questions about work, possessions, solitude and freedom. The price of a house, the sound of a train and the changing surface of the water all become part of his inquiry.

Across eighteen chapters, close observation of the natural world meets an exacting examination of human habits. This edition presents the original English text, with each chapter available to open separately.

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18 chapters · English
  1. 01EconomyFree
  2. 02Where I Lived, and What I Lived ForFree
  3. 03ReadingUS$0.19
  4. 04SoundsUS$0.19
  5. 05SolitudeUS$0.19
  6. 06VisitorsUS$0.19
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  1. 07The Bean-FieldUS$0.19 ↗
  2. 08The VillageUS$0.19 ↗
  3. 09The PondsUS$0.19 ↗
  4. 10Baker FarmUS$0.19 ↗
  5. 11Higher LawsUS$0.19 ↗
  6. 12Brute NeighborsUS$0.19 ↗
  7. 13House-WarmingUS$0.19 ↗
  8. 14Former Inhabitants and Winter VisitorsUS$0.19 ↗
  9. 15Winter AnimalsUS$0.18 ↗
  10. 16The Pond in WinterUS$0.18 ↗
  11. 17SpringUS$0.18 ↗
  12. 18ConclusionUS$0.18 ↗

A LITTLE FURTHER INTO THE BOOK

Places, people & ideas.

01 / Place

Walden Pond

The pond and the woods near Concord, Massachusetts, give the book its daily setting. Weather, animals, visitors and passing trains keep entering the experiment.

02 / Ideas

The cost of a life

Thoreau measures the things he owns against the time they cost him. Notice how often a practical calculation becomes a question about living.

03 / Reading note

Follow the seasons

The observations accumulate through changes in weather and landscape. Read for the details as well as the arguments.

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THE NAME BEHIND THE BOOK

Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau was an American writer and naturalist whose work grew out of close observation and a questioning approach to daily life. In Walden, his experiment beside a Massachusetts pond becomes a sustained inquiry into how we spend our time.

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