Walden
Two years in a cabin he built for $28.12½, itemised, because Thoreau itemised everything.
- Listening time
- about 11 h 24 min
- Length
- 106,254 words
- First published
- 1854
- Public domain
- the author died in 1862
- Edition
- Edition and cover by Standard Ebooks, released CC0
- Download in the app
- 583 KB stored on your device
- Language
- English
- Shelf
- The Natural World
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How it begins.
When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. At present I am a sojourner in civilized life again.
Walden · Henry David Thoreau · 1854
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