Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
- Length
- 52 mornings, about 2,200 words a reading
About the book
Walden is Henry David Thoreau’s account of the two years and two months he spent living alone in a small house he built himself in the woods on the shore of Walden Pond, near Concord, Massachusetts. He began sleeping there on July 4, 1845, and left in September 1847. The land belonged to his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson. Thoreau revised the book for years afterwards, and it was published in Boston in 1854. He went to the woods, he says, because he wished to live deliberately and learn what life had to teach.
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