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Henry Thoreau

Walden

Name: Walden
Brand: Polyglot Publishing
SKU: eba0d428-8f60-3480-11bd-2b272abedf7f-lv-en
Price: 46.99 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Henry Thoreau

Original publication: 1854
Bilingual edition: June 12, 2026
Pages: 688
Difficulty: ★★★
Genres: Philosophy, Self-Help, Travel Writing
Translated from: English

Book summary

Thoreau, seeking simplicity, settles alone near Walden Pond to live in self-sufficiency. He observes nature, reduces his needs to the bare essentials, and reflects on modern society. Through his experience, he questions work, consumption, and dominant values. This text blends personal narrative and philosophical reflection, inviting readers to rethink freedom and what is truly essential. The author proposes a radical vision of a life refocused on the individual and nature.

The plot

Two years in a cabin, by a pond. The author, a young man of 27, borrows an axe, cuts down pines and builds his small wooden house on the shore of a pond.

The world of the book

A pond in the woods, near a village. Walden Pond lies hidden in the woods of Concord, a village thirty kilometers from the city of Boston.

The author

A pencil maker who loved the woods. Born in 1817 near Boston, he works in his father’s pencil workshop and figures out how to make better pencils.

The benefits of the bilingual method with Line-by-line synced layout

Every line of the original has its translation directly beneath it, at the same height. You never lose your place: your eye drops one line and lands on exactly the sentence it just read. This is the layout that lets you open a book in a language you barely know without ever giving up, and compare the two texts almost word for word.

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