Contemporary Notices and Reviews of 
Walden; or, Life in the Woods
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Daily Transcript [Worcester] (17 August 1854): p. 2, col. 3.

This is the result of the Authors' [sic] experience while living alone in the woods, and during a Sojourn of two years and two months on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Mass.  His object in going there was, in his own words, "not to live cheaply nor dearly; but to transact some private business with the fewest obstacles; to be at once Pilot, captain and owner; to be hindered from accomplishing which for want of a little energy and business talent, appeared not so sad as foolish." Though we cannot readily yield to many of the Author's opinions, yet we will not withold [sic] from him our share of the praise which the work merits.  It is neatly issued by Ticknor & Co.

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