About This Book

“"As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them."WHEN I WROTE the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only.When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only.I do not propose to write an ode to dejection,* but to brag as lustily as chanticleer* in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up.When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor,1 in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only.”