Category: Book Walden

In this book Thoreau describes a period in his own life – his “personal experiment”. For two years he lived alone in the forest near the Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau tested not only his ability to survive without any goods of civilisation but also his worldview. He tried to find the new meaning…

Henry David Thoreau’s Walden Considering that Henry David Thoreau’s non fiction book, Walden was first published in 1854, it is somewhat surprising to discover that the 154-year gap is really not that extensive to expect change in our society. Change here is referred to the world and people’s priorities and state of living… 418 words…