Henry David Thoreau’s nonfiction classic "Walden, or A Life in the Woods" was first published on this day in history, on Aug. 9, 1854. "Walden" is about the virtues of simple living and ...

There’s a special, unpolished feeling about Walden Pond Books, and it’s not the Oakland store’s huge inventory that spills onto the sidewalk. It’s the creaking wooden floor. Walk through this book ...

In 1845, a shy young man named Henry David Thoreau “went to the woods to live deliberately.” Using old boards from a nearby shanty, he and a few friends built a small cabin near Walden Pond in Concord ...

Henry David Thoreau might seem an unlikely candidate for a digital reformatting, but the State University of New York at Geneseo has given the author's most famous work, Walden, an online presence ...