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Henry David Thoreau's masterworkWaldenis a collection of his reflections on life and society. In 1845, he moved to a cabin that he built with his own hands along the shores of Walden Pond in Massachusetts.

Table of Contents

Walden and Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau Introduction by Michael Meyer

Suggestions for Further Reading
A Note on the Texts
Walden
Economy
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
Reading
Sounds
Solitude
Visitors
The Bean-Field
The Village
The Ponds
Baker Farm
Higher Laws
Brute Neighbors
House-Warming
Former Inhabitants; and Winter Visitors
Winter Animals
The Pond in Winter
Spring
Conclusion
"Civil Disobedience"
Notes for Walden
Notes for "Civil Disobedience"

About the Author

Henry David Thoreauwas born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1817. He graduated from Harvard in 1837, the same year he began his lifelong Journal. Inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thoreau became a key member of the Transcendentalist movement that included Margaret Fuller and Bronson Alcott. The Transcendentalists' faith in nature was tested by Thoreau between 1845 and 1847 when he lived for twenty-six months in a homemade hut at Walden Pond. While living at Walden, Thoreau worked on the two books published during his lifetime-Walden(1854) andA Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers(1849). Several of his other works, includingThe Maine Woods, Cape Cod, andExcursions, were published posthumously. Thoreau died in Concord, at the age of forty-four, in 1862.

Kristen Case teaches at the University of Maine at Farmington, where she is associate professor of English. She is the author of American Pragmatism andPoetic Practice- Crosscurrents from Emerson to Susan Howe (Camden House, 2011) and Little Arias,a collection of poems (New Issues Press, 2015). She is coeditor of Thoreau at 200- Essays andReassessments (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and has published articles on Thoreau, EzraPound, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, and William James. She lives inTemple, Maine.