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Walden

Henry David Thoreau

PhilosophyBiography & Memoir
Publish date
1854
Publisher
Lulu Press, Inc.
Description
WHEN I WROTE the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only.
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    Vyasa

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  2. The Laws of Manu

    Manu

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  3. The Iliad

    Homer

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    Confucius

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  5. Metamorphoses

    Ovid

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  6. De Agri Cultura

    Cato the Elder

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  7. The Gulistan

    Saadi Shirazi

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  8. The Pilgrim's Progress

    John Bunyan

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  9. The Harivamsa

    Anonymous

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    Quoted in the text to emphasize living unencumbered by unnecessary domestic attachments.

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  10. Natural History

    Pliny the Elder

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