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This is one of the resource pages for Magnetic North's forthcoming production of Walden. Here you'll be able to find out more about the original book, follow the progress of the adaptation on the Walden blog and sign up for regular updates on the production's progress. |
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Henry David Thoreau published Walden or Life in the Woods in 1854. It chronicles the two years and two months he spent living in a hut he built by the shores of Walden Pond, outside Concord, Massachusetts, USA. It is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Thoreau called his time at Walden an experiment in simple living - he did not go into the woods to become a hermit, but to isolate himself from civil society in order to gain a more objective understanding of it. The book is widely available - the cheapest edition is published by Dover Books (ISBN 0-486-28495-6), though it doesn't have any notes. Other editions are published by OUP (ISBN 0-192-83921-7) and Princeton University Press (ISBN 0-691-09612-0) which includes an introduction by John Updike. You can also read Updike's introduction here . There is a 4CD audiobook published by Naxos. There are also a number of on-line versions of the text available: http://thoreau.eserver.org/walden00.html (has hyperlinks to notes) http://www.transcendentalists.com/walden.htm http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/205 There are many articles about the book on-line, the following is just a selection: http://www.kenkifer.com/Thoreau/index.htm gives a brief introduction and a precis of each chapter. http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/patc/walden/ http://www.stevencscheer.com/thoreau.htm http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/BluePete/Thoreau.htm is a fairly in-depth analysis of the book
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