Wild apples
By: by Henry D. Thoreau
Series: The Evergreen series; Evergreen series
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1923
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 57
Subjects: Apples; History
Description: A meditation on apples begins with a short history of the apple tree, tracing its path from ancient Greece to America. Thoreau saw the apple as a perfect mirror of man and eloquently lamented where they both were heading.
Notes: "Wild apples was originally published in the Atlantic monthly, November 1862".

Title vignette.
Table of contents: title: The history of the apple-tree; title: The wild apple; title: The crab; title: How the wild apple grows; title: The fruit, and its flavor; title: Their beauty; title: The naming of them; title: The last gleaning; title: The 'frozen-thawed' apple