Walden
Walden
Thoreau’s account of two years in a cabin by Walden Pond, arranged by season and by argument. It is a book about economy in the old sense: how a life is furnished.
Author
Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau’s Walden is the record of a stay in the woods and an argument about how much a life needs. The pond is real; the book is also a piece of rhetoric.
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers recounts his experience on a boat trip with his brother on the Concord River and Merrimack River.
Paradise (to be) Regained
Paradise (to be) Regained
Paradise (to be) Regained takes the form of a review of John Adolphus Etzler's book The Paradise within the Reach of all Men, without Labor, by Powers of Nature and Machinery: An Address to all intelligent men, in two parts, which had come out in a new edition the previous year.