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Walden - Illustrated Edition: Life in the Woods
Walden - Illustrated Edition Life in the Woods Author:Henry David Thoreau Walden (also known as Life in the Woods) by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau's life for two years and two months in second-growth forest around the shores of Walden Pond, not far from his friends and family in Concord, Massachusetts. Walden was written so... more » that the stay appears to be a year, with expressed seasonal divisions. Thoreau called it an experiment in simple living.« less