Walden, Or, Life in the Woods / on the Duty of Civil Disobedience

by Henry David Thoreau

About This Book

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.