Unabridged version of Walden , by Henry David Thoreau, offered here for chump change. The noted transcendentalist Thoreau wrote Walden as a reflection upon simple living. It is part personal declaration, part social experiment, and part manual for self-reliance. Nature was a study for the essayist, naturalist, and environmentalist David Thoreau. He communed from his cabin on Walden Pond, owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson, to ``live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and... learn what it had to teach.`` Walden is landmark book on self-reliance and simple living. Table of Contents Economy 3 Where I Lived, and What I Lived For 29 Reading 35 Sounds 39 Solitude 45 Visitors 48 The Bean-Field 53 The Village 57 The Ponds 59 Baker Farm 68 Higher Laws 71 Brute Neighbors 76 House-Warming 80 Former Inhabitants and Winter Visitors 86 Winter Animals 91 The Pond in Winter 95 Spring 100 Conclusion 107