Walden

Complete and unabridged, with 28 full-page plates by John Frederick Kensett, George Inness and Winslow Homer. A man builds a cabin at a pond outside Concord, plants beans, keeps accounts to the half-cent, and reports what a year of deliberate living costs and returns. Thoreau went to the woods in 1845 and stayed two years and two months; he was jailed one night for refusing a tax that paid for a w...