Walden by Henry David Thoreau "I picked this up for the first time because I read that it had no real readership until the Depression--when people were forced to think of the virtues of the simple life--and it seemed like something that would speak to our own time. I wasn't disappointed. So much of our American identity comes straight from Thoreau's sensibility--it was enlightening to that end and inspiring in these materialistic times. And it's beautifully written, quite thought provoking." The story is detailed in its accounts of Thoreau's day-to-day activities, observations, and undertakings to survive out in the wilderness in Concord, Massachusetts for two years.
