This article analyzes Walden within the context of early suburbanization around northeastern cities. Drawing from and commenting on popular pattern-book literature, Thoreau seeks to address in a new way the well-published desires and concerns of the nation's city-trapped young men through the cultivation of unreal estate at Walden Pond.

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