Walden (Chump Change Edition)

by Henry David Thoreau

Overview

Unabridged version of Walden, by Henry David Thoreau, offered here for chump change. The noted transcendentalist Thoreau wrote Walden as a reflection upon simple living. It is part personal declaration, part social experiment, and part manual for self-reliance.

Nature was a study for the essayist, naturalist, and environmentalist David Thoreau. He communed from his cabin on Walden Pond, owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson, to "live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and... learn what it had to teach."

Walden is landmark book on self-reliance and simple living.

Table of Contents

Economy 3

Where I Lived, and What I Lived For 29

Reading 35

Sounds 39

Solitude 45

Visitors 48

The Bean-Field 53

The Village 57

The Ponds 59

Baker Farm 68

Higher Laws 71

Brute Neighbors 76

House-Warming 80

Former Inhabitants and Winter Visitors 86

Winter Animals 91

The Pond in Winter 95

Spring 100

Conclusion 107

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781640320314
Publisher:	Chump Change
Publication date:	01/01/1900
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.27(d)
Lexile:	1420L (what's this?)

About the Author

Massachusetts native Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was a leading member of the American Transcendentalist movement, whose faith in nature was tested while Thoreau lived in a homemade hut at Walden Pond between 1845 and 1847. While there, Thoreau worked on the two books published in his lifetime: Walden and A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, Excursions, and other works were published posthumously.

Date of Birth:

July 12, 1817

Date of Death:

May 6, 1862

Place of Birth:

Concord, Massachusetts

Place of Death:

Concord, Massachusetts

Education:

Concord Academy, 1828-33); Harvard University, 1837

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Economy 3

Where I Lived, and What I Lived For 29

Reading 35

Sounds 39

Solitude 45

Visitors 48

The Bean-Field 53

The Village 57

The Ponds 59

Baker Farm 68

Higher Laws 71

Brute Neighbors 76

House-Warming 80

Former Inhabitants and Winter Visitors 86

Winter Animals 91

The Pond in Winter 95

Spring 100

Conclusion 107