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Walden by Henry David Thoreau

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Walden Quotes
11,858 words, approx. 40 pages
Walden (1854) by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American author. Contents 1 Chapters 1.1 Chapter 1: Economy 1.2 Chapter 2: Where I Lived, and What I Lived For 1.3 Chapter 3: Reading 1.4 Chapter 4: Sounds...


Author Biography

Name: Henry David Thoreau
Birth Date: July 12, 1817
Death Date: May 6, 1862
Place of Birth: Concord, Massachusetts, United States
Place of Death: Concord, Massachusetts, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer

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Biography of Henry David Thoreau
20391 words, approx. 68 pages
In his own day, Henry David Thoreau was little known outside his hometown of Concord, Massachusetts, where he was much admired for his passionate stance on social issues, his deep knowledge of natural history, and the originality of his lectures, essays,...
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Biography of Henry David Thoreau
7480 words, approx. 24.9 pages
Generally unrecognized in his own day or, worse, dismissed as a second-rate imitator of his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, in the twentieth century, has emerged as one of America's greatest literary figures. Walden; Or, Life...
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Biography of Henry David Thoreau
6645 words, approx. 22.2 pages
Generally unrecognized in his own day or, worse, dismissed as a second-rate imitator of his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, in the twentieth century, has emerged as one of America's greatest literary figures. Walden, his accou...
 


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Walden Summary
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Walden by Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1817. His family moved away several times but always returned to the small New England town. In the 1830s and 1840s, Concord was a hotbed of activity for reformers...
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Walden Information
2,378 words, approx. 8 pages
This article is about a book by Henry David Thoreau. For other uses of the name, see Walden (disambiguation). Walden (first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an...


News and Journals
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Walk in Thoreau's footsteps
1/24/2008: 847 words, approx. 3 pages
Tom Slayton set out hoping to renew interest in Henry David Thoreau, using his feet and his pen.It turned out that following Thoreau's footsteps to Cape Cod, Walden Pond and Maine's Mount Katahdin burnished his own admiration of the "Walden" author. Now, he hopes the...
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Profiles of students killed in blaze
10/30/2007: 793 words, approx. 3 pages
A look at some of the seven South Carolina college students who died in a weekend beach house fire in North Carolina. Officials have not released the victims' names, but The Associated Press has confirmed several identities through relatives and close friends:University of South Carolina...
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The New York Observer
He Loves His Little Meeskeit, But He Won\'d5t Take Her Home to Mom
9/6/2007: 792 words, approx. 3 pages
[Ed. note: this article was originally published on November 27, 1995.] This is a story about a dirty little secret in the dating world. Almost everybody’s been there—on one side or the other. Two men were sitting at the Princeton Club having drinks. It was...
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Deal extends timber money for counties
3/8/2007: 342 words, approx. 1 pages
Payments to rural counties hurt by cutbacks in federal logging would continue for a year under a deal reached Thursday.Four Oregon House members _ Republican Greg Walden and Democrats Earl Blumenauer, Peter DeFazio and Darlene Hooley _ said they had secured the one-year extension as...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Sherman Paul
26,496 words, approx. 88 pages
In this excerpt, Paul examines Walden's numerous images of renewal and transformation.
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Critical Essay by Charles R. Anderson
18,031 words, approx. 60 pages
This excerpt deals with Walden's style and structure, which Anderson claims is both circular and web-like.
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Critical Essay by Thomas Woodson
14,351 words, approx. 48 pages
In this excerpt, Woodson discusses Walden as a dialectical work with beginnings in both the private journal entries for July, 1845, and the public lecture delivered at the Concord Lyceum in February, 1847.
 
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Essay Grade: 86%
Unexpected Critiques in Walden
1,045 words, approx. 4 pages
Describes the unexpected critiques on society found in Walden by Henry David Thoreau. Examines Thoreau's style and word usage as well as his overall intent of the novel
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Essay Grade: 92%
A Wondering Ideal in "Walden"
761 words, approx. 3 pages
This essay is an opinion essay about Henry David Thoreau's "Walden." This essay deals with his philosophies and talks about the tone of his writing.
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Essay Grade: 92%
Cutting the Darkness in Walden
519 words, approx. 2 pages
This is a discussion of Henry David Thoreau's experiences and thoughts in his book Walden. The emphasis is on his darker views, and the essay's author's personal relation to those.
 


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