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Thoreau of Walden Pond Study Guide

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by Sterling North
About 49 pages (14,623 words)

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Born on July 12, 1817, Thoreau lived in one of the most intellectual communities of any era in American history, mid-nineteenth-century Concord, Massachusetts. He was friends with many of the authors and philosophers associated with the movement called New England transcendentalism, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bronson Alcott, William Ellery Charming, and Margaret Fuller.

Emerson, Thoreau's friend and mentor, is considered the father of New England transcendentalism, which championed nature.....

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