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Thoreau’s Reading

A Study in Intellectual History
With bibliographical catalogue by Robert Sattelmeyer

  • Preface
  • Chapter 1: Harvard College,1833-1837
  • Chapter 2: The Early Transcendental Apprenticeship, 1837-1844; Literary Walden and Beyond, 1845-1849; Career
  • Chapter 3: From A Week Exigencies and Opportunities, 1849-1850 to Walden; Shifting Emphases, 1850-1854
  • Chapter 4: The Latter Natural History; Literary Civil History; Career Aboriginal History
  • Bibliographical Catalogue
  • Index of Short Titles
  • Bibliography
  • Index

A digital edition presented as a coöperative project of Princeton University Press and the Walden Woods Project. Originally published: Princeton University Press, ©1988. All rights reserved: Princeton University Press, ©1988

 
 

 

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As boys are sometimes required to show an excuse for being absent from school, so it seems to me that men should have to show some excuse for being here.—Journal, 3 January 1861

 
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