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Henry David Thoreau

Walden

Read an experiment in deliberate living that questions inherited measures of success through labor, solitude, close observation, and encounters with neighbors.

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Contents

  1. Economy
  2. Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
  3. Reading
  4. Sounds
  5. Solitude
  6. Visitors
  7. The Bean-Field
  8. The Village
  9. The Ponds
  10. Baker Farm
  11. Higher Laws
  12. Brute Neighbors
  13. House-Warming
  14. Former Inhabitants and Winter Visitors
  15. Winter Animals
  16. The Pond in Winter
  17. Spring
  18. Conclusion

About this text

Henry David Thoreau. Digital source: Project Gutenberg, ebook 205. This reading text follows the edition used in our interactive reader.

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