Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden” Is Published
On August 9, 1854, Henry David Thoreau’s seminal work, Walden; or, Life in the Woods, was published. This influential book is a reflective account of Thoreau’s two-year experiment in simple living at Walden Pond, near Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau’s intention was to explore the relationship between nature and the individual and to offer a critique of […]