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Title: Walden; or Life in the Woods.Publisher: British
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Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord,
Massachusetts in 1817. He graduated from Harvard in 1837, the same
year he began his lifelong Journal. Inspired by Ralph Waldo
Emerson, Thoreau became a key member of the Transcendentalist
movement that included Margaret Fuller and Bronson Alcott. The
Transcendentalists'' faith in nature was tested by Thoreau between
1845 and 1847 when he lived for twenty-six months in a homemade hut
at Walden Pond. While living at Walden, Thoreau worked on the two
books published during his lifetime: Walden 1854 and A
Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers 1849. Several of his
other works, including The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, and
Excursions, were published posthumously. Thoreau died in
Concord, at the age of forty-four, in 1862.
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