Walden, Version 2: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Walden, Version 2, credited to Henry David Thoreau, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Walden, Version 2 by Henry David Thoreau. Read in English by Nick Bulka Walden (first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self-reliance. First published in 1854, it details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts. The book compresses the time into a single calendar year and uses passages of four seasons to symbolize human development. - Summary by Wikipedia

Recording facts

• Recording title: Walden, Version 2
• Author credits: Henry David Thoreau
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 22
• Listed recording duration: 11:58:27

Catalogue topics

• nature
• Massachusetts
• thoreau
• concord
• walden pond

Track guide

1. 01 - Economy (Part 1) — 40:52
2. 02 - Economy (Part 2) — 34:22
3. 03 - Economy (Part 3) — 39:01
4. 04 - Economy (Part 4) — 34:14
5. 05 - Economy (Part 5) — 25:58
6. 06 - Where I Lived, and What I Lived For — 41:28
7. 07 - Reading — 26:25
8. 08 - Sounds — 39:42
9. 09 - Solitude — 23:22
10. 10 - Visitors — 31:29
11. 11 - The Bean-Field — 27:56
12. 12 - The Village — 13:11
13. 13 - The Ponds — 59:16
14. 14 - Baker Farm — 17:52
15. 15 - Higher Laws — 28:05
16. 16 - Brute Neighbors — 30:16
17. 17 - House-Warming — 37:15
18. 18 - Former Inhabitants and Winter Visitors — 32:10
19. 19 - Winter Animals — 24:35
20. 20 - The Pond In Winter — 33:53
21. 21 - Spring — 45:37
22. 22 - Conclusion — 31:28

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