“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, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived,” he wrote. He built the simple 10-by-15-foot cabin along the shore of the 62-acre pond, a mile from the nearest neighbor, on land owned by his friend, poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. Thoreau was a 27-year-old Harvard graduate when he moved to Walden. The book explores Thoreau’s views on nature, politics and philosophy.
The American transcendentalist writer’s work is a first-person account of his experimental time of simple living at Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts, starting in 1845, for two years and two months. But when it was first published-on August 9, 1854-it sold just around 300 copies a year. Henry David Thoreau’s classic Walden, or, A Life in the Woods is required reading in many classrooms today.
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