TY - BOOK AU - Thoreau,Henry David TI - Walden: or, life in the woods and on the duty of civil disobedience T2 - Simon & Schuster enriched classic SN - 9780743487726 U1 - 818.303 PY - 1854/// [2004] CY - New York PB - Simon & Schuster KW - Thoreau, Henry David, KW - Solitude KW - Massachusetts -- KW - Walden Woods N2 - Walden, or, Life in the Woods, is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self-reliance. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years in a cabin he built near Walden Pond, amid woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts ER -