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Introduction -- A brief biography of Henry David Thoreau -- Part One, Thoreau as seen by his contemporaries -- Thoreau / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- "A slight, quaint-looking person" / Daniel Ricketson -- ...

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This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. One summer evening, in the mid-19th century, Henry David Thoreau threw a party—a melon party, to be precise, a ...