Walden

Henry David Thoreau, American transcendentalist writer and philosopher. In the spring of 1845, he built a log cabin in the Walden lakeside woods of his hometown Concord city. From then on he worked with sunrise -- tilling and writing at sunset. In 1847, the first draft of Walden was completed, and after five years of repeated revisions, additions and embellishments, it was finally presented to the...