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Walden
Henry David Thoreau · 1854
Original text in English.
The railway now runs alongside the pond. This text sets against the age a calculation: what it takes to live, and what the rest costs in life.
Narrative · 19 parts · about 107 000 words · about 7 h 43 of reading
Contents
- Ouverture1 min
- Economy1 h 51
- Where I Lived, and What I Lived For26 min
- Reading16 min
- Sounds25 min
- Solitude15 min
- Visitors21 min
- The Bean-Field17 min
- The Village9 min
- The Ponds40 min
- Baker Farm11 min
- Higher Laws18 min
- Brute Neighbors21 min
- House-Warming25 min
- Former Inhabitants and Winter Visitors20 min
- Winter Animals16 min
- The Pond in Winter23 min
- Spring29 min
- Conclusion20 min
About this text
Henry David Thoreau († 1862): public-domain work. The text is that of the Project Gutenberg e-book (no. 205). Erostrate has not changed a single word: only the layout and the division into pages are ours.
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