Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 53 Thoreau 53 Nathaniel Hawthorne 51 Flaubert 51 Rorty 50 autodidact 50 David Thoreau 50 Reinhold Niebuhr 50 de Tocqueville 49 biographers 49 DH Lawrence 49 biographer 49 Ralph Waldo Emerson 49 philosopher 48 Edith Wharton 48 Strachey 48 idealizing 48 Jean Jacques Rousseau 48 Objectivism 48 Hannah Arendt 48 Hofstadter 48 Mrs. Dalloway 48 writings 47 slaveholder 47 Kierkegaard 47 suffragist 47 Kazin 47 Grace Paley 47 novelist 47 Gopnik 47 Baudelaire 46 idealize 46 unschooling 46 idealization 46 classical liberalism 46 libertine 46 WH Auden 46 abolitionist 46 literary canon 46 pamphleteer 46 intellectual pursuits 46 Immanuel Kant 45 Grandma Moses 45 literary 45 Jane Austen 45 Calvinist 45 antislavery 45 Nietzsche 45 Maugham 45 Mencken 45 Bertrand Russell 45 eugenics movement 45 Harriet Beecher Stowe 45 deist 45 Puritan 45 GK Chesterton 45 Ozick 45 EM Forster 45 moderns 45 suffrage movement 45 postmodernist 44 Pilgrim Progress 44 authorial 44 epistolary 44 literary executor 44 empiricism 44 Marcel Proust 44 suffragette 44 Sartre 44 Edward Gibbon 44 Hester Prynne 44 Hegelian 44 rationalist 44 picaresque 44 freethinking 44 Herman Melville 44 Brontë 44 Emily Dickinson 44 metaphysics 44 idealist 44 read voraciously 44 Charlotte Bronte 44 Walden Pond 44 girlhood 44 Isaac Bashevis Singer 44 Puritanism 44 scholarly 44 Rothbard 44 prig 44 Montaigne 44 moralist 44 pacifism 44 abolitionists 43 Ayn Rand 43 Sean Wilentz 43 Madame Bovary 43 memoirist 43 Sigmund Freud 43 Thomas Hobbes 43 essayist 43 Carson McCullers 43 Erma Bombeck