Biography

Henry D. Thoreau

by F. B. Sanborn

A life of Thoreau written in 1882 for the American Men of Letters series by Franklin Sanborn, a Concord schoolmaster who knew him in his last years. Sanborn was one of the six men who secretly paid for John Brown’s raid, and it was he who brought Brown to dinner at the Thoreaus’ house in 1857. The book is warm, opinionated and not always accurate, like many first lives.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 4 hr 30 min

Where to find it

Walden Pond

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #51426. In the public domain in the United States.