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Walden; or, Life in the Woods
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"Walden; or, Life in the Woods"
Lowell Journal and Courier, 10 August 1854, p. 2, col. 3.

Ticknor & Fields, of Boston, have just sent us this handsome volume, by Henry D. Thoreau, author of "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers."  Mr Thoreau, who lived nearly three years in the woods, has been called 'the Concord Diogenes,' as Ralph Waldo Emerson has been called the Concord Platonist or American Plato.  This is one of the most singular, as well as one of the best of works.  It is no romance, though most of it is of a narrative character.  The press all over the country have given the most flattering notices of it; and without doubt it will command a very extensive sale.  It surely deserves it. 

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