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“It is just the pleasantest and most readable, the most thought-provoking book of the present season.” enthusiastic reviews like this one confirmed Walden’s immediate popularity and foretold its future as a magnificent literary canon.

In Walden, the transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau narrates his experience of living during two years alone in the woods, as an attempt to put into practice his philosophical socioeconomic theories as well as to find himself in nature.

This variated in subject book can be studied an understood from many different perspectives: it can be seen as a reproof on society, an economic experiment, a self-discovery journey, a spiritual experience and even as a report on nature’s poetry.

Thoreau address these and more topics with good wit and challenges both, socioeconomic dogmas and stubborn minds with crushing simplicity (influence).

The aim of this essay is to analyze and debate the most significant and relevant ideas of the book to nowadays’ world which has evolved in the way this author most dreaded.