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 Contents

Economy         3

Where I Lived, and What I Lived For  29

Reading           35

Sounds 39

Solitude           45

Visitors            48

The Bean-Field            53

The Village      57

The Ponds        59

Baker Farm      68

Higher Laws    71

Brute Neighbors           76

House-Warming           80

Former Inhabitants and Winter Visitors           86

Winter Animals            91

The Pond in Winter      95

Spring  100

Conclusion      107