Walden (1854) Thoreau

For other versions of this work, see Walden, or, Life in the Woods.

WALDEN;

OR,

LIFE IN THE WOODS.

By HENRY D. THOREAU,
AUTHOR OF "A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS."

I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the
morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up.—Page 92.

BOSTON:

TICKNOR AND FIELDS.

M DCCC LIV.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by
HENRY D. THOREAU,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

STEREOTYPED AT THE
BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY.


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This work was published before January 1, 1930, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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