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WaldenWalden
For two years the author lived alone in a cabin by a Massachusetts pond, and out of that experiment wrote a meditation on simplicity, self-reliance, nature, and how to live deliberately. A founding text of American thought.
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The great American book about simplifying your life and paying attention to the world, prickly, beautiful, and quietly revolutionary. It has launched a thousand escapes to the woods.
SettingMassachusetts, 1845–47
Antebellum New England amid the first rush of industry and commerce, which Thoreau fled to ask what a human life is actually for.