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Can I read Walden, or : Life in the woods on EtoBox?
Walden, or : Life in the woods by Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862; Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress) DLC is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Walden, or : Life in the woods about?
Walden first published in 1854 as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is a book by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon the author's simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and—to some degree—a manual for self-reliance. Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau makes precise scientific observations of nature as well as metaphorical and poetic uses of natural phenomena. He identifies many plants and animals by both their popular and scientific names, records in detail the color and clarity of different bodies of water, precisely dates and describes the freezing and thawing of the pond, and recounts his experiments to measure the depth and shape of the bottom of the supposedly "bottomless" Walden Pond. (Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden))
Who reads Walden, or : Life in the woods?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862; Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
- Publisher
- Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press/Doubleday
- Published
- 1973
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780385095037
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Memoir
- Rating
- 3.79 / 5 (494 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14