Thoreau Facts

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1)Thoreau grew up in Concord.
2)His most famous book was Walden(1854).
3)He was a Graduate of Harvard in 1837.
4)In 1841 he was invited to live in the (Ralph Waldo) Emerson household.
5)He was a contributor to the magazine, The Dial.

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6) His work began with journal entries
7)Thoreau cared deeply about the problems of his time and the people around him
8)(Thoreau's book,)Walden comes to us as a narrative of the time Thoreau lived in a small cabin near Walden Pond.
9)The Thoreau Reader contains six of Thoreau's essays. Civil Disobedience is the most famous.
10)Life Without Principle is considered Thoreau's best short statement of what was most important to him.

*Courtesy of Alvin Lieu. Thanks, Al.