Finding Your Walden Nonfiction (Incl. Memoirs) from the Introduction

from the Introduction

When Lila arrives in Gilead

and moral struggle toward self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understood themselves

and doomed passion for the nymphet

"To read Bloom's insights here is to bask in the emanation of genius

Finding Your Walden Nonfiction (Incl. Memoirs) from the IntroductionDiscover Henry David Thoreau's philosophy of living a good life and learn how to apply it to your own. The hero for our time is someone few people get right. Thoreau wasn't a hermit in the woods. He lived during a time like ours, of rapid technological and economic changes, political division, and a pandemic. Thoreau, like us, reassessed his priorities: What does success really look like? What is my duty as an ethical citizen of a less than ethical