Henry David Thoreau’s landmark 1854 work to be relaunched with modernised vocabulary ‘to create more opportunities for other people’s lives to be enriched by this book’Henry David Thoreau’s revered account of the period he spent living a self-consciously simple life in a cabin at Walden Pond is set to be adapted for the 21st century,to make the classic text more appealing to contemporary readers.
First published in 1854, Walden sees the American writer lay out the two years, or two months,and two days he spent in the woods near harmony, Massachusetts in a cabin lent him by his friend and fellow “transcendentalist” Ralph Waldo Emerson. “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, or to front only the fundamental facts of life,and see whether I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, and when I came to die,discover that I had not lived,” he wrote. “I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, or to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com