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Henry David Thoreau\u2019s nonfiction classic “Walden, or A Life in the Woods” was first published on this day in history<\/a>, on Aug. 9, 1854.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Walden” is about the virtues of simple living and self-sufficiency in a modern world.<\/p>\n

It was inspired by the two years and two months Thoreau spent living in a small cabin in Concord, Massachusetts<\/a>, at the edge of Walden Pond in the 1840s, as the History of Massachusetts website indicates.<\/p>\n

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The American transcendentalist author\u2019s work explores his views on nature, philosophy and politics, according to History.com.<\/p>\n

“One of the most influential and compelling books<\/a> in American literature, \u2018Walden\u2019 is a vivid account of the years that Thoreau spent alone in a secluded cabin at Walden Pond,” says the Princeton University Press.<\/p>\n

Thoreau was a 27-year-old Harvard graduate when he moved to Walden, says History.com<\/p>\n

The site he picked for building the cabin was on land belonging to his close friend<\/a> Ralph Waldo Emerson.<\/p>\n

He and Emerson had already discussed Thoreau’s plan to live on the land, which Emerson had recently purchased, according to The University of California, Santa Barbara Library.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This quote from Walden captured his book\u2019s messaging of both material necessities and human existence, according to multiple sources: “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Thoreau\u2019s only income source came from the labor of his own hands: He farmed the land, eating and selling his crops, which included beans, potatoes, corn, peas and turnips, says History.com.<\/p>\n

His goal was to conduct an experiment in simple living, to lead a life according to nature and to determine the real necessities of life, said Smithsonian Magazine.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“It would be some advantage,” Thoreau wrote in “Walden,” “to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization.”<\/p>\n

The initial print run of “Walden” was 2,000 copies, with each book priced at $1, noted History.com.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It took five years for that book run to sell out.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The work didn\u2019t receive much attention during Thoreau\u2019s lifetime; however, Walden achieved tremendous popularity in the 20th century, Britannica.com pointed out.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Thoreau\u2019s description of the physical act of living day by day at Walden Pond<\/a> gave the book authority, while his command of a clear and straightforward but elegant style helped raise the book to the level of a literary classic, cited the same source.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Quotes that have been woven through American society and often repeated, according to multiple sources, include: “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation”; “Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes”; and “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.”<\/p>\n

The author was born in 1817, the third of four children of a pencil manufacturer in Concord, Massachusetts, says the New Yorker.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 1833, after graduating from Harvard, Thoreau worked as a schoolteacher<\/a>, then helped run a school until its co-director, his older brother John, died of tetanus.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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When the school became too much for Thoreau to handle alone, he closed it and returned to work in the pencil factory, according to the Thoreau Society.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He was soon invited to work as a live-in handyman in the home of his mentor, neighbor and friend, Ralph Waldo Emerson, the same source said.<\/p>\n

Thoreau was also an activist. He gave speeches and organized meetings to protest slavery, to work for the Underground Railroad, and to defend abolitionist John Brown.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He was also inspired to write the work, “Civil Disobedience,” said Smithsonian Magazine.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Thoreau\u2019s legacy is perpetuated through the Thoreau Society, which promotes continued interest in and research on Thoreau and his work.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Thoreau Society is the oldest and largest organization devoted to the American author; it aims to promote Thoreau\u2019s life and works through education, outreach and advocacy, according to the Thoreau Society.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Only after Thoreau\u2019s death \u2014 and due to vigorous championing by his family members, Emerson and later readers \u2014 did “Walden” become a cornerstone work of American nonfiction and its author an American hero, recounted the New Yorker.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Thoreau died of tuberculosis in 1862.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He was just 44 years old.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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