Walden, is a transcendentalist work reflecting on simple living in natural surroundings. Thoreau recounts his experiences over two years, two months, and two days in a cabin near Walden Pond, owned by his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts. The book serves as a personal declaration of independence, social experiment, spiritual voyage, satire, and guide for self-reliance. Thoreau combines precise scientific observations of nature with metaphorical and poetic interpretations, documenting his interactions with the environment and his experiments with living deliberately.
