Thoreau's Walden is one of the most-read and most-taught classics of American literature, yet it remains one of our most challenging books. Why did Thoreau go to the woods? What did he learn there? And why didn't he stay? These questions puzzled Thoreau himself, and his quest to compose answers that would bear the full weight of his life and thought led to the publication of Walden. Thoreau was a prophet as well as a naturalist and poet, and now that we live in the future he most feared, his call to live "deliberately" seems more urgent, and more difficult, than ever. Please join Thoreau biographer Laura Walls for this brilliantly entertaining and provocative introduction to Walden HERE.