Walden, or Life in the Woods

Henry Thoreau spent two years, two months, and two days in a cabin on the shore of Walden Pond, in voluntary isolation from society, engaged in farming, fishing, and reading, rejecting the unnecessary inventions of modern civilization. The result of... this solitude was the book "Walden, or Life in the Woods" - 18 essays-observations on building the cabin, methods of farming, woodland inhabitants, and nature. The vividness of descriptions, sharpness of satire, and spirited polemic – all these are part of a personal declaration of independence, a social experiment, a journey of spiritual revelations, and – to some extent – a guide to self-confidence. The autobiographical book by Henry Thoreau, where he recounts an experiment far ahead of its time, has become an American classic and has influenced a variety of currents in modern thought, from anarcho-capitalism to eco-socialism.