Annotated Essays

This new selection of Thoreau’s essays by Jeffrey S. Cramer, The Walden Woods Project’s Curator Emeritus, traces his trajectory as a writer for the outlets of his day – the periodical press, newspapers, and compendiums – and as a frequent presenter on the local literature circuit.  By arranging the writings chronologically, the volume re-creates the experience of Thoreau’s readers as they followed his developing ideas over time.

The essays included, in order, are: “Natural History of Massachusetts,” “A Winter Walk,” “A Walk to Wachusett,” “Paradise (To Be) Regained,” “Wendell Phillips Before Concord Lyceum,” “Thomas Carlyle and His Works,” “Resistance to Civil Government [Civil Disobedience],” “Slavery in Massachusetts,” John Brown Essays: “A Plea for Captain John Brown,” and “The Last Days of John Brown,” “An Address on the Succession of Forest Trees,” “Walking,” “Autumnal Tints,” “Wild Apples,” and “Life Without Principle”.

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