Walden

Henry David Thoreau

Aug 2014 · Open Road Media

About this ebook

An American masterwork in praise of nature, self-reliance, and the simple life

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
 
In 1845, the transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau moved from his home in the town of Concord, Massachusetts, to a small cabin he built by hand on the shores of Walden Pond. He spent the next two years alone in the woods, learning to live self-sufficiently and to take his creative and moral inspiration from nature. Part memoir, part philosophical treatise, part environmental manifesto, Walden is Thoreau’s inspirational account of those extraordinary years and one of the most influential books ever written.
 
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Ratings and reviews

Hard set in rural 17th century America the gems of insight found in Walden still resonate today. Choosing the quiet life of contemplation over strife and progress H.T. unpacks his imagination with force and humour. Do read.

insipid ramblings of an arrogant and stupid man. There are 100 and 200 word sentences. Everything is a complaint.

The old English composition makes it difficult to read but nonetheless is rich in meaning!

About the author

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) was an American author and naturalist. A leading figure of Transcendentalism, he is best remembered for Walden, an account of the two years he spent living in a cabin on the north shore of Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts, and for Civil Disobedience, an essay that greatly influenced the abolitionist movement and the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.