Walden
Two years in a cabin by a pond, and a lifetime’s thinking about how much — or how little — we really need.
- Author
- Henry David Thoreau
- First published
- 1854
- Length
- About 107,000 words (roughly 380 print pages)
- Formats
- EPUB (DRM-free) · Online reader
- Language
- English (American spelling)
- Edition source
- Standard Ebooks (public-domain dedication, CC0)
About this book
In 1845 Henry David Thoreau built a small cabin beside Walden Pond in Massachusetts and lived there for two years, growing beans, reading, walking and watching the seasons turn. Walden is his account of the experiment — and an argument for living simply and deliberately.
Practical, prickly and often very funny, it moves from the cost of nails and boards to the meaning of a well-spent life.
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Credits & licence
Ebook edition: Standard Ebooks, released into the public domain (CC0 1.0). Produced for Standard Ebooks by Alex Cabal, based on a transcription from Project Gutenberg and digital scans from the Internet Archive. Cover: Standard Ebooks design adapted from “Mill in the Forest”, a painting completed in 1897 by Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin (public domain). EPUB and web reader edition packaged by Paper Lane Books from the Standard Ebooks source files. Standard Ebooks is not affiliated with Paper Lane Books and does not endorse this shop.
