Walden: And Other Writings with Walking

Walden, Henry Thoreau's classic account of life in a simple one-room cabin in New England remains, 150 years on, an anti-establishment masterpiece and a testament to individualism
wrote John Updike
Henry David Thoreau began the tale of his experiment of simple living at Walden Pond. Over the course of the next two hundred-odd pages, Thoreau outlined his philosophy of life, politics, and nature, laying the foundation for a secure place in the canon of great American writers. Although Walde...