Walden

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Walden
by Henry David Thoreau 		Chapter 1. Economy→
Walden (also known as Life in the Woods) by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau's life for two years and two months in second-growth forest around the shores of Walden Pond, not far from his friends and family in Concord, Massachusetts. Walden was written so that the stay appears to be a year, with expressed seasonal divisions. Thoreau called it an experiment in simple living.

Walden is neither a novel nor a true autobiography, but a social critique of the Western World, with each chapter heralding some aspect of humanity that needed to be either renounced or praised.

— Excerpted from Walden on Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia.


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Contents

  1. Economy
  2. Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
  3. Reading
  4. Sounds
  5. Solitude
  6. Visitors
  7. The Bean-Field
  8. The Village
  9. The Ponds
  10. Baker Farm
  11. Higher Laws
  12. Brute Neighbors
  13. House-Warming
  14. Former Inhabitants and Winter Visitors
  15. Winter Animals
  16. The Pond in Winter
  17. Spring
  18. Conclusion
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