Walden
Walden(alsoknownasLifeintheWoods)byHenryDavidThoreauisoneofthebest-knownnon-fictionbookswrittenbyanAmerican.Publishedin1854,itdetailsThoreau'slifefortwoyearsandtwomonthsinsecond-growthforestaroundtheshoresofWaldenPond,notfarfromhisfriendsandfamilyinConcord,Massachusetts.Waldenwaswrittensothatthestayappearstobeayear,withexpressedseasonaldivisions.Thoreaucalleditanexperimentinsimpleliving.Waldenisneitheranovelnoratrueautobiography,butasocialcritiqueoftheWesternWorld,witheachchapterheraldingsomeaspectofhumanitythatneededtobeeitherrenouncedorpraised.
- Contents
- Economy-1
- Economy-2
- Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
- Reading
- Sounds
- Solitude
- Visitors
- The Bean-Field
- The Village
- The Ponds
- Baker Farm
- Higher Laws
- Brute Neighbors
- House-Warming
- Former Inhabitants and Winter Visitors
- Winter Animals
- The Pond in Winter
- Spring
- Conclusion
- ON THE DUTY OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
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