Unabridged version of Walden, by Henry David Thoreau, offered here for chump change. The noted transcendentalist Thoreau wrote Walden as a reflection upon simple living. It is part personal declaration, part social experiment, and part manual for self-reliance. Nature was a study for the essayist, naturalist, and environmentalist David Thoreau. He communed from his cabin on Walden Pond, owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson, to "live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and… learn what it had to teach." Walden is landmark book on self-reliance and simple living. Table of Contents Economy 3 Where I Lived, and What I Lived For 29 Reading 35 Sounds 39 Solitude 45 Visitors 48 The Bean-Field 53 The Village 57 The Ponds 59 Baker Farm 68 Higher Laws 71 Brute Neighbors 76 House-Warming 80 Former Inhabitants and Winter Visitors 86 Winter Animals 91 The Pond in Winter 95 Spring 100 Conclusion 107