Contemporary Notices
and Reviews of
Walden; or, Life in
the Woods
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North
American Review (October 1854): p. 536
The
economical details and calculations in this book are more curious than
useful; for the author's life in the woods was on too narrow a scale to
find imitators. But in describing his hermitage and his forest life, he
says so many pithy and brilliant things, and offers so many piquant, and,
we may add, so many just, comments on society as it is, that his book is
well worth reading, both for its actual content and its suggestive
capacity.
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