person
Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau
also: Торо, Genri Toro
American writer and naturalist (1817-1862), author of Walden; mentioned here as the subject of a newspaper piece in "Novoye Vremya" that Chekhov is clipping and saving for Korolenko, whose first chapter he finds promising but hard reading, its architecture and construction "impossible."
Reading notes
- To V. G. Korolenko, 17 October 1887. Moscow. §5 Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau, the American writer and naturalist; Chekhov is clipping a newspaper piece about him from Novoye Vremya, evidently a serialized introduction or review, whose first chapter he finds promising but difficult -- its architecture and construction "impossible."