WaldenAuthor/s: Henry David Thoreau

Walden was written by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau and is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. This book details Thoreau’s experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self-reliance.