Walden, or Life in the Woods

Walden or, Life in the Woods

Henry David Thoreau
1854

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Text from the Library of America edition: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers ; Walden, or, Life in the Woods ; The Maine
Woods ; Cape Cod, by Henry David Thoreau, Edited by Robert F.
Sayre, ISBN: 0940450275.
Out of copyright text comes originally from the Literary Classics of the U.S reprint, 1985.
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I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up.—Page 66.

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Contents

1. Economy
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2. Where I Lived, and What I Lived For .........
3. Reading ........................................................
4. Sounds ........................................................
5. Solitude ........................................................
6. Visitors ........................................................
7. The Bean-Field .............................................
8. The Village ..................................................
9. The Ponds ..................................................
10. Baker Farm ..................................................
11. Higher Laws ..............................................
12. Brute Neighbors