Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
In 1845, Henry David Thoreau quit his pencil business and began building a cabin on the shore of Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. This lyrical but practically-minded book is a record of the 26 months Thoreau spent leaving society—a story about the everyday minutias of building, planting, hunting, cooking, and always observing nature—and a declaration of independence from the oppressive traditions of the world he left behind. Elegant, witty, and quietly called, Walden remains the most compelling American argument for the simplicity of life's clarity of conscience.
