Walden
Walden (also known as Life in the Woods) by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau's life for two years and two months in second-growth forest around the shores of Walden Pond, not far from his friends and family in Concord, Massachusetts. Walden was written so that the stay appears to be a year, with expressed seasonal divisions. Thoreau called it an experiment in simple living.
Walden is neither a novel nor a true autobiography, but a social critique of the Western World, with each chapter heralding some aspect of humanity that needed to be either renounced or praised.
展开- Contents296 字
- Economy-168483 字
- Economy-270544 字
- Where I Lived, and What I Lived For32442 字
- Reading20902 字
- Sounds31347 字
- Solitude18301 字
- Visitors25763 字
- The Bean-Field21626 字
- The Village10800 字
- The Ponds49010 字
- Baker Farm13876 字
- Higher Laws22895 字
- Brute Neighbors25500 字
- House-Warming30494 字
- Former Inhabitants and Winter Visitors25916 字
- Winter Animals19548 字
- The Pond in Winter28003 字
- Spring36210 字
- Conclusion25115 字
- ON THE DUTY OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE50767 字