Thoreau describes the many visitors who have entered his home. Thoreau contemplates the benefits of solitary living. Thoreau describes the many sounds that can be heard from his cabin. Thoreau discusses classic literature and its benefits. Thoreau remembers the many different locations he surveyed before settling at Walden Pond. Thoreau attempts to illustrate the benefits of a simplified lifestyle. Walden is neither a novel nor a true autobiography, but a social critique of much of the contemporary Western World, with its consumerist attitudes and its distance from and destruction of nature. He did not go into the woods to become a hermit, but to isolate himself from civil society in order to gain a more objective understanding of it. Thoreau lived in close geographical proximity to the town Concord: “living a mile from any neighbor,” should be taken literally he lived about a mile from his neighbors. Thoreau called it an experiment in simple living. Walden was written so that the stay appears to be a year, with expressed seasonal divisions. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau’s life for two years, two months, and two days in second-growth forest around the shores of Walden Pond, on land owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson, not far from his friends and family in Concord, Massachusetts. Walden (also known as Walden or, Life in the Woods) by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American.
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