Henry David Thoreau

Walden

Name: Walden
Author: Henry David Thoreau

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Language: English
First published: 1854
Reading time: 463 minutes
Chapters: 20 chapters

About this book

In 1845 Henry David Thoreau built a small cabin beside Walden Pond, near Concord, Massachusetts, and lived there alone for two years and two months.

Walden is his account of that experiment in simple living: what he spent, what he grew and ate, what he read, and what he learned from the woods, the animals and the turning seasons. It is also a sharp and often funny challenge to readers who feel that work and possessions leave them no time to live. First published in 1854, it has inspired nature writers and seekers of a quieter life ever since. Read it slowly.

When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands…

Economy, part 1 of 3

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Project Gutenberg (eBook #205)
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Project Gutenberg eBook #205 (updated 20 February 2026), downloaded 7 November 2026. Walden only: the essay "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience", which follows it in the same file, was not imported, nor were the title page, the contents list and the title-page motto; the 18 chapters are unchanged.
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