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Walden: Life in the Woods
- Also Known As: Life in the Woods
- Author: Henry David Thoreau
- As Noted In: 1000 or so Notable Biographies, Histories and Verfabulas, Phantom
- As Noted In: 1000 or so Notable Essays, Treatises and Eruditions, Phantom
- As Noted In: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, Quintessence Editions
Timeline
| Y/M/D | Association | Description | Place | Locale | Food | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1845/03/05 | William Ellery Channing (poet) | Advisor | I see nothing for you on this earth but that field which I once christened 'Briars' - go out upon that, build yourself a hut, and there begin the grand process of devouring yourself alive. - WEC letter to HDT | Walden Pond | Concord, MA | ||
| 1845/03/30 | Henry David Thoreau | Architect | Near the end of March, I borrowed an axe and went down to the woods by Walden Pond, nearest to where I intended to build my house, and began to cut down some tall arrowy white pines, still in their youth, for timber. - HDT | Walden Pond | Concord, MA | ||
| 1845/07/01 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Mentor | As for Thoreau, there is one chance in a thousand that he might write a most excellent and readable book.... - NH to publisher Evert Duyckinck | ||||
| 1845/07/01 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck | Life | As for Thoreau, there is one chance in a thousand that he might write a most excellent and readable book.... - NH to publisher Evert Duyckinck | ||||
| 1845/08/05 | Henry David Thoreau | Home | HDT sends Benjamin Watson fruit: One box is full of red huckleberries warranted not to change their hue, or lose their virtues in any climate.... The other contains half a dozen cherries (Sand Cherries, Bigelow?) The last grew within a rod of my lodge,... | Walden Pond | Concord, MA | Red Huckleberry | |
| 1845/11/00 | Henry David Thoreau | Architect | I built the chimney after my hoeing in the fall, before a fire became necessary for warmth, doing my cooking in the meanwhile out of doors on the ground, early in the morning.... HDT | Walden Pond | Concord, MA | ||
| 1846/07/23 | Henry David Thoreau | Life | Thoreau spends a night in the jail on the west side of the common, arrested for non-payment of taxes. Released after a relative paid the tax, he wrote "Civil Disobedience External" (originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government"). | Concord Monument Square-Lexington Road Historic District | Concord, MA | ||
| 1854/00/00 | Henry David Thoreau | Author | Walden - published | Old Corner Bookstore | Boston | ||
| 1854/00/00 | Ticknor and Fields | Publisher | Walden - published | Old Corner Bookstore | Boston |
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| Particulars for Walden: Life in the Woods: | |||
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| Art Type | Book | a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers. | |
| Narrative Arts | Factual | concerned with what is actually true rather than interpretations of or reactions to it | |
| Narrative Arts | Fiction | prose literature, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people | |
| Narrative Arts | Narrative | an account of connected events | |
| Art Type | Novel | long form fiction narrative that is at least 40,000 words in length | |
| Area of Significance | Philosophy | ||
| Narrative Arts | Prose | ordinary written language | |
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| Original Language: | English | ||
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