Walden (Chump Change Edition)

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 ContentsEconomy 3Where I Lived, and What I Lived For 29Reading 35Sounds 39Solitude 45Visitors 48The Bean-Field 53The Village 57The Ponds 59Baker Farm 68Higher Laws 71Brute Neighbors 76House-Warming 80Former Inhabitants and Winter Visitors 86Winter Animals 91The Pond in Winter 95Spring 100Conclusion 107