Walden X 40: Essays on Thoreau

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In 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved from his parents' house in Concord, Massachusetts, to a one-room cabin on land owned by his mentor, Ralph Waldo Emerson.After 26 months he transformed his stay in the woods into one of the most famousevents in American history. In Walden x 40, adopting Thoreau's own compositionalmethod, Robert B. Ray takes up several questions posed in Walden. Thoreau developedhis books from his lectures, and his lectures from his almost-daily journalnotations of the world around him, with its fluctuating weather and appointedseasons, both forever familiar and suddenly brandnew. Ray derives his 40 briefessays from the details of Walden itself, reading the book in the way that Thoreauproposed to explore his own life -- deliberately. Ray demonstrates that howeveraccustomed we have grown to its lessons, Walden continues to be as surprising as theNovember snowfall that, Thoreau reports, "covered the ground... and surroundedme suddenly with the scenery of winter.