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heNry davId thoreau
1817 – 1862, american
The Portable Thoreau
Edited with an Introduction by Carl Bode
This collection comprises the complete
texts Walden, A Week on the Concord and
Merrimack Rivers, and “Civil Disobedience”
as well as eighteen poems and selections
from Thoreau’s other writings, including
“Walking” and “The Last Days of John
Brown.”
704 pp. 978-0-14-015031-5 $18.00
Cape Cod
With an Introduction by Paul Theroux
With his unique perceptions and precise
descriptions, Cape Cod chronicles
Thoreau’s journey of discovery along
this evocative stretch of Massachusetts
coastline.
320 pp. 978-0-14-017002-3 $15.00
The Maine Woods
With an Introduction by
Edward Hoagland
Over a period of three years, Thoreau
made three trips to the largely unexplored
woods of Maine. Using the careful
notes made during these journeys,
Thoreau managed to capture a wilder
side of America and revealed his own
adventurous spirit.
440 pp. 978-0-14-017013-9 $17.00
Walden and Civil Disobedience
Introduction by Michael Meyer
Two classic examinations of individuality
in relation to nature, society, and
government, Walden conveys at once a
naturalist’s wonder at the commonplace
and a Transcendentalist’s yearning for
spiritual truth and self-reliance. “Civil
Disobedience” is perhaps the most famous
essay in American literature—and the
inspiration for social activists around the
world, from Gandhi to Martin Luther
King, Jr.
440 pp. 978-0-14-039044-5 $12.00
A Week on the Concord and
Merrimack Rivers
Edited with an Introduction by
H. Daniel Peck
Thoreau’s account of his 1839 boat trip is
a finely crafted tapestry of travel writing,
essays, and lyrical poetry. An invaluable
companion to Walden, it also stands alone
as one of the most remarkable literary
achievements of the nineteenth century.
384 pp. 978-0-14-043442-2 $12.00
A Year in Thoreau’s Journal: 1851
Introduction and Notes by
H. Daniel Peck
Thoreau’s journal of 1851 reveals
profound ideas and observations in the
making, including wonderful writing on
the natural history of Concord.
464 pp. 978-0-14-039085-8 $16.00
See Nineteenth-Century American Poetry.
heNry davId thoreau
Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1817. He
graduated from Harvard in 1837, the same year he began his lifelong journal.
Inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thoreau became a key member of the
Transcendentalist movement. He tested the Transcendentalists’ faith in nature
between 1845 and 1847, when he lived for twenty-six months in a homemade hut
at Walden Pond. There he worked on the only two books published during his
lifetime, Walden and A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Several of his
other works were published posthumously. Thoreau died in Concord in 1862.
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