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In the Groves of Henry David Thoreau

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19930404
Author:Noel Perrin

Faith in a Seed By Henry D. Thoreau. Edited by Bradley P. Dean. Island Press. $25.

It is quite common for a major author's oeuvre to keep growing after the author has died. The literary executors find manuscripts stuck in drawers or preserved in libraries, and they publish them. Hemingway had a new book just a few years ago.

It's not at all common, however, for a writer still to be at it a century after his death. But then, Henry David Thoreau never did follow custom. Thoreau died in 1862. He has a new book now.

The first question is: Do we finally have a sequel to Walden? No. Walden ...

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