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Walden

Henry David Thoreau

Walden

Paper book: €54.99

Digital: €16.99

Original publication
1854
Bilingual edition
June 12, 2026
Pages
851
Difficulty
Hard
Genres
Philosophy, Self-Help, Travel Writing
Moods
Think it through, Understand myself, Feel comforted, Savour the writing
Translated from
English

Book summary

In 1845, Henry David Thoreau builds a cabin with his own hands beside Walden Pond, in the woods of Massachusetts, and lives there alone for two years. He grows beans, watches the seasons and the animals, and reduces his needs to the bare essentials.

A book that invites you to ask what you really need in order to live. It has become a touchstone for everyone seeking a simpler, freer life, closer to nature.

With the translation always in front of you, you can read it chapter by chapter, at your own pace, in the language you are learning.

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.

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