Familiar Letters

Walden is a book by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and-to some degree-a manual for self-reliance. First published in 1854, Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau used this time to write his first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. The experience later inspired Walden, in which Thoreau compresses the time into a single calendar year and uses passages of four seasons to symbolize human development.

• • Author: Henry David Thoreau
• • Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• • Publication Date: Jul 23, 2018
• • Number of Pages: 218 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1723436135
• • ISBN-13: 9781723436130