Walden x 40 : essays on Thoreau / Robert B. Ray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ray, Robert B. (Robert Beverley), 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862. Walden.

Thoreau, Henry David.

Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862--Homes and haunts--Massachusetts--Walden Woods.

Walden Woods (Mass.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 famous events in American history. In Walden x 40, adopting Thoreau's own compositional method, Robert B. Ray takes up several questions posed in Walden. Thoreau developed his books from his lectures, and his lectures from his almost-daily journal notations of the world around him, with its fluctuating weather and appointed seasons, both forever familiar and sudden

Contents:

Intro

Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

Bibliographical Note

Introduction

1. Adventure

2. Ants

3. Awake

4. Baskets

5. Books

6. Colors

7. Death

8. Distance

9. Drummer

10. Experiment

11. Fashion

12. Flute

13. Full of Hope

14. Genius

15. Good and Evil

16. Higher Laws

17. Idleness

18. 4 July 1845

19. Kittlybenders

20. Leaving Walden

21. Molting

22. Name

23. Numbers

24. Obscurity

25. Opportunity

26. Philosopher

27. Proving

28. Question

29. Readers

30. Rents

31. Ruins

32. Spider

33. Stripped

34. Tracks and Paths

35. Unexplorable

36. Vocation

37. Without Bounds

38. X Marks Walden's Depth

39. Years

40. Zanzibar

Notes

Annotated Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-12435-0

9786613528216

0-253-00551-5

OCLC:

775866825