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Henry David Thoreau A Very Short Introduction
Lawrence Buell

The first concise account of Thoreau's life, thought, work, and impact in more than half a century
Builds upon the explosion of new scholarship on Thoreau during the decade of the bicentennial of his birth

Treats Thoreau's two most famous and influential works - Walden and "Civil Disobedience" - both as an interdependent pair and as a window into the evolution of his thought and writing as a whole