WALDEN

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."

A landmark work of American individualism, Walden chronicles Thoreau's time of simple living in a small cabin at Walden Pond. "[Walden] is a document of increasing pertinence," wrote E.B. White. "Each year it seems to gain a little headway, as the world loses ground."