WALDEN

Walden is Henry David Thoreau's account of two years spent in a cabin he built beside Walden Pond in Massachusetts. He went there to learn and to live simply, and the book records his failures as well as his successes in getting by.

City life, Thoreau suggests, pulls people away from themselves and into a race for material goals. In the quiet of the cabin he finds a fulfilment that the bustle never gave him, before he eventually returns to the city. He is a man who is not lonely when he is alone.

Part memoir and part philosophical treatise, the book invites readers to measure their own lives against his experiment. It is a slow, reflective journey toward meeting yourself again.