Thoreau, Henry David creator text New York Signet Books 1949 monographic eng

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p.219 Walden was written by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau and is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. This book 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. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self-reliance. Henry David Thoreau Literature American literature in English  American miscellaneous writings in English Middle 19th Century 1830-61 818.3 THO-W 260714 20260817115032.0