Walden

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Walden is both a seminal work of American transcendentalism and Henry David Thoreau’s literary masterpiece. Thoreau lived for just over two years in a cabin that he built for himself on the banks of Walden Pond, which is in Concord, Massachusetts. In Walden, Thoreau describes the natural beauty of Walden Pond and his efforts to live simply and deliberately (his words.)

A later version of this text has been digitized and is available through the Internet Archive.

Lehigh University Catalog Record: https://asa.lib.lehigh.edu/Record/10673741

 

Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Walden.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866