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Walden.(Book Review)(Audiobook Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)

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From: Kliatt
Date: 20020101
Author:Palmer, Jean

Henry David Thoreau. 1854/2001. Read by William Hope. Abridged. 4 tapes, 5.25 hrs. Naxos Audiobooks. 9-6263-4732-5. $22.98. Cardboard, plastic; content, author, reader notes. SA

Ahead of his time in many ways, and feeling that most men "live lives of quiet desperation," Thoreau set out to live in a simple cabin he built in the woods on Walden Pond, not too far from his family home in Concord, Massachusetts. He was then, and would be considered today, an eccentric. His journal is more relevant today than when it was written and has a special impact when read aloud. This ...

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