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...Excerpt: 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 ...

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...Table of Contents: Economy, 1 -- Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, 50 -- Reading, 62 -- Sounds, 69 -- Solitude, 80 -- Visitors, 87 -- The Bean-Field, 97 -- The Village, 105 -- The Ponds, 109 -- Baker Farm, 126 -- Higher Laws, 13...

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... Walden or, Life in the Woods HENRY DAVID THOREAU 1854 DjVu Editions Copyright © 2001 by Global Language Resources... ... 1854 DjVu Editions Copyright © 2001 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Contents Economy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...itors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 The Bean Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...als . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 The Pond in Winter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 Spr... ...den Economy 1 Economy W HEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a hous... ...custom, by how many modes, only not state prison offences; lying, flattering, voting, contracting yourselves into a nutshell of civility, or dilating i... ... in all the ages of the world in an hour; ay, in all the worlds of the ages. History, Poetry, Mythology! — I know of no reading of another’s experienc... ...t with civilization. I hardly need refer now to the laborers in our Southern States who produce the staple exports of this country, and are themselves... ...e same all the world over, whether the building be an Egyptian temple or the United States Bank. It costs more than it comes to. The mainspring is van...