Essays of Henry D. Thoreau Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde

Name: Essays of Henry D. Thoreau Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde
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ISBN: 9780865476462

ISBN-10: 0865476462

ISBN-13: 9780865476462

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Authors: Henry David Thoreau, Lewis Hyde, Lewis Hyde, H. Thoreau

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Thoreau's major essays annotated and introduced by one of our most vital intellectuals. With The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau, Lewis Hyde gathers thirteen of Thoreau's finest short prose works and, for the first time in 150 years, presents them fully annotated and arranged in the order of their composition. This definitive edition includes Thoreau's most famous essays, "Civil Disobedience" and "Walking," along with lesser-known masterpieces such as "Wild Apples," "The Last Days of John Brown," and an account of his 1846 journey into the Maine wilderness to climb Mount Katahdin, an essay that ends on a unique note of sublimity and terror. Hyde diverges from the long-standing and dubious…

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List price: $22.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 5/5/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Introduction: Prophetic Excursions A Note on the Selection


Acknowledgements


The Essays


""Natural History of Massachusetts""


""A Winter Walk""


""Paradise (to be) Regained""


""Ktaadn""


""Civil Disobedience""


""Walking""


""Slavery in Massachusetts""


""Life Without Principle""


""Autumnal Tints""


""The Succession of Forest Trees""


""A Plea for Captain John Brown""


""The Last Days of John Brown""


""Wild Apples""


Annotations


Bibliography


Index