THOREAU: Walden

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Walden (more info)
Composed by: Henry David Thoreau
William Hope, narrator
Produced by: Soames, Nicolas


1.   Economy - 7:07
2. 'The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation' - 3:45
3. 'I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.' - 6:59
4. 'Not long since, a strolling Indian went to sell baskets...' - 1:31
5. 'My purpose in going to Walden Pond...' - 3:25
6. 'As for a Shelter, man did not live long on earth...' - 6:53
7. 'The farmer is endeavouring to solve the problem of a livelihood...' - 2:14
8.   'Most men appear never to have considered what a house is...' - 3:09
9.   'Near the end of March 1845, I borrowed an axe and went down to the woods...' - 10:24
10. 'I have thus a tight shingled and plastered house...' - 8:19
11.   'By surveying, carpentry and day-labour...' - 2:26
12. 'I have learned from my two years' experience...' - 4:04
13. 'My furniture, part of which I made myself...' - 4:05
14. 'For more than five years I maintained myself thus...' - 4:51
15. 'But all this is very selfish, I have heard some of my townsmen say,' - 9:05

Walden (more info)
Composed by: Henry David Thoreau
William Hope, narrator
Produced by: Soames, Nicolas


1.   Where I lived and what I lived for - 5:36
2. 'When I first took up my abode in the woods...' - 4:05
3. 'Every morning I got up early and bathed in the pond...' - 4:43
4. 'Hardly a man takes a half-hour's nap after dinner...' - 6:14
5. Reading - 8:14
6. Sounds - 6:31
7. 'The Fitchburg Railroad touches the post about a hundred rods south of where I dwell.' - 5:54
8.   'Now that the cars are gone by and all the restless world with them..' - 5:34
9.   Solitude - 9:46
10. Visitors - 2:40
11. 'Many a traveller came out of his way to see me...' - 5:11
12. 'Who should come to my lodge this morning but a true Homeric man...' - 4:53
13. The Bean-Field - 9:56

Walden (more info)
Composed by: Henry David Thoreau
William Hope, narrator
Produced by: Soames, Nicolas


1.   The Village - 5:50
2. The Ponds - 7:35
3. 'In summer, Walden never becomes so warm as most water which is exposed to the sun..' - 6:30
4. 'The skaters and water-bugs finally disappear in the latter part of October..' - 5:30
5. I have said that Walden has no visible inlet nor outlet...' - 7:21
6. Baker Farm - 6:23
7. Higher Laws - 5:24
8.   'I have found repeatedly, of late years, that I cannot fish without failing a little. ..' - 10:21
9.   Brute Neighbours - 5:27
10. 'I was witness to events of a less peaceful character.' - 3:39
11.   'Once I was surprised to see a cat walking along the stony shore of the pond..' - 5:23
12. 'House-Warming - 6:53

Walden (more info)
Composed by: Henry David Thoreau
William Hope, narrator
Produced by: Soames, Nicolas


1.   'The pond had in the meanwhile skimmed over in the shadiest and shallowest coves..' - 10:06
2. Former inhabitants; and winter visitors - 6:52
3. 'At this season I seldom had a visitor.' - 5:47
4. Winter Animals - 4:52
5. 'When the ground was not yet quite covered yet..' - 5:40
6. The Pond in Winter - 8:53
7. 'In the winter of '46-7, a hundred Irishmen with Yankee overseers..' - 3:48
8.   Spring - 6:28
9.   'What is man but a mass of thawing clay?' - 5:30
10. 'A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades - 5:19
11.   Conclusion - 15:23

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