Walden

The 1854 text. 18 parts, about 106,444 words, 8 hours of reading. Source edition.

Passages the guide marks

The long opening chapter, Economy, itemises the cost of the house and of his food and argues that most people work far more than they need to, spending their lives on what he calls the necessaries and then on…
Economy · Read it in Economy
Thoreau went to the woods because he wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if he could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when he came to die, discover that he had not…
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For · Read it in Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
The chapters describe reading, sounds, solitude, visitors, the bean-field, the village, the ponds, winter animals and the thaw of spring, the two years compressed into the cycle of a single year that ends in the ice…
The book's structure from summer through winter to spring

About this text

Public domain in the United States; the Standard Ebooks edition is released under CC0. It is not the edition the programs assign; the guide names that one, and the buy links there point at it.

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