Walden

In 1845, Henry David Thoreau left his home in Concord, Massachusetts, for a house he built himself beside the still waters of Walden Pond, choosing to live deliberately and face only the essential facts of life. Over the two years that followed, he kept a careful record of what he observed there, in solitude and close attention to the natural world around him. The result is a work long regarded as a cornerstone of transcendentalism, environmentalism and individual enlightenment, and one that continues to reward readers drawn to quiet, searching reflection.