Biography: Henry D. Thoreau

SubjectThoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862Authors, American -- 19th century -- BiographyNaturalists -- United States -- BiographyCONTENTS.CHAPTER I.PageBirth and Family1CHAPTER II.Childhood and Youth32CHAPTER III.Concord and its Famous People63CHAPTER IV.The Embattled Farmers97CHAPTER V.The Transcendental Period124CHAPTER VI.Early Essays in Authorship148CHAPTER VII.Friends and Companions174CHAPTER VIII.The Walden Hermitage201CHAPTER IX.Horace in the Role of Mæcenas216CHAPTER X.In Wood and Field242CHAPTER XI.Personal Traits and Social Life261CHAPTER XII.Poet, Moralist, and Philosopher284CHAPTER XIII.Life, Death, and Immortality297