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The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau
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NEW!:
The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau:
Journal, Volume 8: 1854
Henry D. Thoreau
Edited by Sandra Harbert Petrulionis
Cloth | July 2002 | $65.00 / £45.00
507 pp. | 5 x 8 | 89 line illus.
The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau:
Journal: Volume 6: 1853
Edited by William Rossi and Heather Kirk Thomas
ISBN: 0-691-06537-3, Cloth | 2000 | $65.00 / £40.00, 480 pp.
| 5 x 8 | 38 line illus., 4 photos, 1 map
The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Cape Cod
Edited by Joseph J. Moldenhauer
Paper | 1988 | $11.95 / £7.50, 452 pp. | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
Cloth | 1988 | $62.50 / £40.00, 452 pp.
Thoreau's compelling account of Cape Cod is here presented in the complete
and definitive text, excluding only the critical apparatus. His trips to the
Cape, he wrote, were intended to afford "a better view than I had yet had
of the ocean." In the plants, animals, topography, weather, people, and
human works of Massachusetts' long projection into the Atlantic, he finds
"another world." Encounters with the ocean dominate the book, from the
fatal shipwreck of the opening episode to the late reflections on the Pilgrims'
Cape Cod landing and reconnaissance. Along the way, Thoreau relates the
experiences of fishermen and oystermen, farmers and salvagers,
lighthouse-keepers and ship-captains, as well as his own intense confrontations
with the sea as he travels the land's outermost margins. Chronicles of
exploration, settlement, and survival on the Cape lead Thoreau to reconceive the
history of New England and to recognize the parochialism of history itself.
Review:
"Cape Cod is Thoreau's sunniest, happiest book. It bubbles over with
jokes, puns, tall tales, and genial good humor. . . . Unquestionably the best
book that has ever been written about Cape Cod, and it is the model to which all
new books about the Cape are still compared."--Walter Harding, in The
Days of Henry Thoreau
Thoreau, H.D.:
Early Essays and Miscellanies.
Edited by J. J. Moldenhauer and E. Moser
Cloth | 1975 | $75.00 / £47.00, 430 pp.
Thoreau, H.D.:
Early Essays and Miscellanies.
Edited by J. J. Moldenhauer and E. Moser
Cloth | 1975 | $75.00 / £47.00
430 pp.
Thoreau, H.D.:
Journal, Vol. 1: 1837-1844.
ISBN: 0-691-06361-3, Cloth | 1981 | $87.50 / £55.00, 712 pp.
Journal, Vol.2: 1844-1848. Edited
by R. Sattelmeyer
ISBN: 0-691-06186-6, Cloth | 1983 | $75.00
/ £47.00, 616 pp.
Journal, Vol.3: 1848-1851.
Edited by E. H. Witherell and J. C. Broderick
ISBN: 0-691-06533-0 Cloth | 1990 | $75.00
/ £47.00, 636 pp.
Journal, Vol.4: 1851-1852.
Edited by L. N. Neufeldt and N. C. Simmons
ISBN: 0-691-06535-7, Cloth | 1992 | $75.00 / £47.00, 804 pp.
From 1837 to 1861 Thoreau kept a Journal that began as a conventional record of
ideas, grew into a writer's notebook, and eventually became the principal
imaginative work of his career. The source of much of his published writing, the
Journal is also a record of both his interior life and his monumental studies of
the natural history of his native Concord, Massachusetts. In contrast to earlier
editions, the Princeton Edition reproduces the Journal in its original and
complete form, in a reading text that is free of editorial interpolations but
keyed to a comprehensive scholarly apparatus. Despite such time-consuming and
varied activities as extensive surveying for the town of Concord and helping a
fugitive slave escape to Canada, Thoreau wrote nearly eight hundred manuscript
pages in his Journal during the eight months covered by this volume. Confirmed
in his vocation as a natural historian, he began to compile the richly detailed
records of Concord's woods, fields, and streams that would occupy him for the
rest of his life, and he consciously shaped the Journal to reflect his new aims
as a writer. He also began major revisions of his Walden that would lead to its
publication in 1854.
Journal, Vol. 5: 1852-1853
Edited by Patrick F. O'Connell
Editor-in-Chief, Elizabeth Hall Witherell
General Editor for the Journal, Robert Sattelmeyer
ISBN: 0-691-06536-5, Cloth | 1997 | $70.00 / £44.00, 616 pp. |
5 x 8 | 78 figures, 12 tables
From 1837 to 1861 Thoreau kept a journal that began as a
conventional record of ideas, grew into a writer's notebook, and eventually
became the principal imaginative work of his career. The source of much of his
published writing, the Journal is also a record of both his interior life and
his monumental studies of the natural history of his native Concord,
Massachusetts. In contrast to earlier editions, the Princeton Edition reproduces
the Journal in its original and complete form, in a reading text that is free of
editorial interpolations but keyed to a comprehensive scholarly apparatus.
Covering an annual cycle from spring 1852 to late winter 1853, Journal 5
finds Thoreau intensely concentrating on detailed observations of natural
phenomena and on "the mysterious relation between myself & these
things" that he always strove to understand. Increasingly, the Journal
attempts to balance a new found scientific professionalism and the accurate
recording of phenological data with a firmly rooted belief in the spiritual
correspondences that Nature reveals. Fittingly, the year of observation ends
with Thoreau pondering an invitation to join the Association for the Advancement
of Science, an invitation he ultimately declined in order to pursue his own life
studies.
NEW!:
Journal: Volume 6: 1853
Edited by William Rossi and Heather Kirk Thomas
ISBN: 0-691-06537-3, Cloth | 2000 | $65.00 / £40.00, 480 pp.
| 5 x 8 | 38 line illus., 4 photos, 1 map
The Maine Woods.
Edited by J. J. Moldenhauer
ISBN: 0-691-01404-3, Paper | 1972 | $30.00 / £18.95. 375 pp.
ISBN: 0-691-06224-2, Cloth | 1972 | $75.00 / £47.00, 392 pp.
Reform Papers.
Edited by T. F. Glick
ISBN: 0-691-06241-2, Cloth | 1973 | $60.00 / £38.00, 416 pp.
Translations.
Edited by Van Van Anglen
ISBN: 0-691-06531-4, Cloth | 1986 | $50.00 / £30.00, 300 pp.
Walden. (Paperback with an introduction by Joyce Carol Oates)
Edited by J. L. Shanley
ISBN: 0-691-01464-7, Paper | 1988 | $7.95 / £5.00, 364 pp.
ISBN: 0-691-06194-7, Cloth | 1988 | $70.00 / £44.00, 420 pp.
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.
ISBN: 0-691-06376-1, Cloth | 1980 | $80.00 / £50.00, 624 pp.
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