Walden

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach..." Originally published in 1854, Walden; or, Life in the Woods, is a series of essays in which the author reflects on the two years and two months he spent living simply, in a life stripped to its essentials, in a small cabin by Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. Part memoir, part nature writing, part social critique, Walden challeng...