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Walden

Name: Walden
Author: Henry David Thoreau
ISBN: 9780140390445

Henry David Thoreau, 1854

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Dead Poets Society · 1989 · John Keating

Keating's marrow line: Walden

Published in 1854. Thoreau's pond is in Concord, Massachusetts, a few hours south of a Vermont school that doesn't let its boys leave campus without a pass.

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