Download or read book Walden written by Henry David Thoreau and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-13 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry David Thoreau's classic account of his time spent in solitude in the woods by Walden Pond having left Concord, Massachusetts in 1845, disdainful of America's growing commercialism and industrialism. It is full of Transcendentalist yearning for spiritual truth and self-reliance as well as observation of nature.