TWO BROTHERS compete for the hand of a woman and one of them ends up dying. Sounds like the making of a juicy romance novel, doesn't it? Only this story is not a work of fiction. It actually happened to one of America's greatest writers, and not just to any writer mind you. This was the author of Walden, "Civil Disobedience," and "A Plea for Captain John Brown," a writer famous for his stoic manner, his grave and serious prose, his intellectual curiosity (some say snobbery) and a man known to his closest friends and neighbors as a "confirmed bachelor of thought and nature." Henry David Thoreau never got married, and this may very well be the reason why.
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