Walden oder vom Leben in den Wäldern

In 1845, Henry David Thoreau, the son of a pencil manufacturer, built himself a simple cabin by Walden Pond, near his hometown of Concord, Massachusetts, to retreat there for two years. "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." Walden is the record of this experiment by one of the first modern dropouts and is also one of the most peculiar and beautiful contributions to the concept of happiness.