Walden

In 1845, the American Transcendentalist philosopher Henry David Thoreau went to live in the woods near his hometown of Concord, Massachusetts. For over two years he lived there largely in solitude in a small cabin he built with his own hands. Walden is his personal account of this time, in which he documents both his passion for the landscape and wildlife of Walden Pond and his philosophical and political motivations for rejecting the materialism that continues to define not only America but much of the modern world.