Where Did Thoreau Write Walden?

But when it was first published—on August 9, 1854—it sold just around 300 copies a year. The American transcendentalist

writer's work is a first-person account of his experimental time of simple living at Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts, starting in 1845, for two years and two months.

Where did Thoreau live in Walden?

He settled in a forest on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and built himself a tiny cabin.

What is the setting of Thoreau's Walden?

Introduction Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, is famous among lakes because of its unique social history. Walden was the setting for American naturalist Henry David Thoreau's well-known essay 'Walden; or, Life in the Woods,' first published in 1854.