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    From Lake Walden, With Love
    From Lake Walden, With Love
    From Lake Walden, With Love
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    From Lake Walden, With Love

    By T. J. Robertson

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    In 1848 Henry David Thoreau, a young man of twenty-one, met and fell in love with Ellen Sewall, a young woman aged seventeen. This play, From Lake Walden, With Love, is based on what is known of their relationship.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherT. J. Robertson
    Release dateFeb 11, 2013
    ISBN9781301914364
    From Lake Walden, With Love
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    T. J. Robertson

    Although I’ve made my living as a teacher and guidance counselor, I’ve always had a passion for writing. Thomas Bouregy and Company published my novel, Return to Paradise Cove, under their Avalon imprint. Two of my one-act plays, A Different Kind of Death, and The Flirt, have been produced, respectively, in New Haven, Connecticut, and Sacramento, California. Short stories of mine have appeared in commercial magazines such as Action and True Romance as well as in certain literary and professional ones.

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      Book preview

      From Lake Walden, With Love - T. J. Robertson

      From Lake Walden, With Love

      by

      T. J. Robertson

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2013 T. J. Robertson

      Thank you for downloading this free eplay. You are welcome to share it with your friends. This play may be reproduced, copied, and distributed for non-commercial purposes, provided it remains in its complete original form. If you enjoyed it, please return to Smashwords.com to discover other works by this author. Thank you for respecting his hard work.

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      Cast of Characters

      CYNTHIA THOREAU--Mother

      HENRY DAVID THOREAU--Her younger son

      JOHN THOREAU--Her older son

      SOPHIA THOREAU-- Her younger daughter

      PRUDENCE WARD--Boarder and aunt of Ellen Sewall

      ELLEN SEWALL--Prudence's niece

      EDMUND SEWALL--Ellen's father

      CAROLINE SEWALL--Ellen's mother

      ACT ONE

      Prologue

      Beneath a bright light in the center of an otherwise darkened stage, each of six speakers appears, one after the other.

      FIRST SPEAKER

      I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up.

      SECOND SPEAKER

      In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.

      THIRD SPEAKER

      I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it

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