In this widely acclaimed biography, outstanding Thoreau scholar Walter 
Harding presents all of these Thoreaus. Scholars will find here the 
culmination of a lifetime of research and study, meticulously 
documented; general readers will find an absorbing story of a remarkable
 man. Writing always with supreme clarity, Professor Harding has 
marshaled all the facts so as best to "let them speak for themselves." 
Thoreau's thoughtfulness and stubbornness, his more than ordinarily 
human amalgam of the earthy and the sublime, his unquenchable vitality 
emerge to the reader as they did to his own family, friends, and 
critics.<br>You will see Thoreau's work in his family's pencil factory, 
his accidental setting of a forest fire, his love of children and hatred
 of hypocrisy, his contributions to the scientific understanding of 
forest trees, and other more and less familiar aspects of the man and 
his works. You will find the social as well as the reclusive Thoreau. 
Reactions to him by such notable contemporaries as Margaret Fuller, 
Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Walt Whitman — with Thoreau's responses to them
 — are given in rich detail.<br>"The best biography we have had." — Carl Bode, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i>

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