Essays
Subtitle: a fully annotated edition
By: Henry D. Thoreau ; edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer
Contributors: Cramer, Jeffrey S., 1955- editor of compilation
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9780300164985
Subjects: Essay; Essays; Amerikanisches Englisch
Work titles: Essays
Description: A collection of Thoreau's essays traces his trajectory as a writer and presenter, in a chronologically organized work that follows the Transcendentalist's ideas as they developed over time.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction:; title: Thoreau and the periodic press? -- [Jeffrey S. Cramer]; title: Natural history of Massachusetts --; title: A winter walk --; title: A walk to Wachusett --; title: Paradise (to be) regained --; title: Wendell Phillips before Concord Lyceum --; title: Thomas Carlyle and his works --; title: Resistance to civil government [Civil disobedience] --; title: Slavery in Massachusetts -- -- John Brown Essays.; title: A plea for Captain John Brown ;; title: The last days of John Brown --; title: An address on the succession of forest trees --; title: Walking --; title: Autumnal tints --; title: Wild apples --; title: Life without principle -- -- Appendix. Excerpts from; title: John Adolphus Etzler.