Walden x 40
eBook - ePub

Walden x 40

Essays on Thoreau

  1. 204 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Walden x 40

Essays on Thoreau

About this book

Provocative and illuminating essays on Thoreau's masterwork, shedding new light on its enduring inspiration and philosophical depth.
 
In 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved from his parents' house in Concord, Massachusetts, to a one-room cabin he built himself on the land of his mentor, Ralph Waldo Emerson. He described his time there, just over two years, as an experiment in "living deliberately." His daily journal entries became the source material for Walden, a masterful meditation on the virtues of simplicity, self-sufficiency, and man's relationship to nature.
 
In Walden x 40, Robert B. Ray adopts Thoreau's compositional method to explore some of the questions posed in Walden. Drawing connections to the works of poets and philosophers from Wordsworth to Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, and Breton, Ray derives the inspiration for his 40 brief essays by exploring the pages of Walden in the same way Thoreau explored his own life—deliberately.
 

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Bibliographical Note
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. Adventure
  9. 2. Ants
  10. 3. Awake
  11. 4. Baskets
  12. 5. Books
  13. 6. Colors
  14. 7. Death
  15. 8. Distance
  16. 9. Drummer
  17. 10. Experiment
  18. 11. Fashion
  19. 12. Flute
  20. 13. Full of Hope
  21. 14. Genius
  22. 15. Good and Evil
  23. 16. Higher Laws
  24. 17. Idleness
  25. 18. 4 July 1845
  26. 19. Kittlybenders
  27. 20. Leaving Walden
  28. 21. Molting
  29. 22. Name
  30. 23. Numbers
  31. 24. Obscurity
  32. 25. Opportunity
  33. 26. Philosopher
  34. 27. Proving
  35. 28. Question
  36. 29. Readers
  37. 30. Rents
  38. 31. Ruins
  39. 32. Spider
  40. 33. Stripped
  41. 34. Tracks and Paths
  42. 35. Unexplorable
  43. 36. Vocation
  44. 37. Without Bounds
  45. 38. X Marks Walden’s Depth
  46. 39. Years
  47. 40. Zanzibar
  48. Notes
  49. Annotated Bibliography
  50. Index