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 that the stay appears to be a year, with expressed seasonal divisions. Thoreau called it an experiment in simple living.… (more)
Language: English
Published in: 1854
Word count: 106,266 words (≈ about 7 hours)
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/205
Copyright: Public Domain
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