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Henry D. Thoreau

by Franklin Benjamin SANBORN (1831 - 1917)

Birth and Family

A biography of the famous and popular poet-naturalist, author, philosopher, historian, written by a family friend who spent time with Thoreau almost daily during the last seven years of his life and who knew and talked with members of his family. Written shortly after his death, it was immediately popular and this later edition gained a new audience. ( Lynne Thompson)

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Chilhood and Youth , Concord and its Famous People , Early Essays in Authorship , Friends and Companions , Horace in the Role of Maecenas , In Wood and Field , Life, Death, and Immortality , Personal Traits and Social Life , Poet, Moralist, and Philosopher , The Embattled Farmers , The Transcendental Period , The Walden Hermitage