Walden

Like Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Walden is one of those seriously important books I feel I must have read and, if I haven't, I should, because seriously important people - Tolstoy, Marx, Gandhi - said that it changed their lives

Sue Arnold, Guardian

Walden is really the original alternative manifesto

Martin Kettle, Guardian

Walden can be taken as an antidote to apathy and anxiety. With its high spirits and keen appeals to the senses, it fortifies

John Updike, Guardian

It is as philosophy, as one of the great self-help books, as a spiritual message, that is Walden at its most powerful

Washington Post

A lovely read...Thoreau was ahead of his time, right down to his hipster beard

Lauren Laverne, The Pool