Thoreau

Tho·reau  (th-r, thôr), Henry David 1817-1862.

American writer. A seminal figure in the history of American thought, he spent much of his life in Concord, Massachusetts, where he became associated with the New England transcendentalists and lived for two years on the shore of Walden Pond (1845-1847). His works include "Civil Disobedience" (1849) and Walden (1854).

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Tho·reauvi·an (-v-n) adj.

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Thoreau [ˈθɔːrəʊ θɔːˈrəʊ]

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(Biographies / Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862) M, US, WRITING: writer, SOCIAL SCIENCE: social critic) Henry David. 1817-62, US writer, noted esp for Walden, or Life in the Woods (1854), an account of his experiment in living in solitude. A powerful social critic, his essay Civil Disobedience (1849) influenced such dissenters as Gandhi

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Thoreau - United States writer and social critic (1817-1862) Henry David Thoreau