Thoreau and Emerson Transcendentalism is used frequently as main topics in the stories "Nature" and Walden. ... Walden was a story written by Thoreau, which is fairly similar to the contrasting book "Nature". ...

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Thoreau's best-known work is Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854), which embodies his philosophy and reflects his independent character. The book records Thoreau's experiences in a hand-built cabin, where he spent two years in partial seclusion, at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. ...

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