Walden ; and, Resistance to civil government : authoritative texts, Thoreau's journal, reviews, and essays in criticism /

In Walden, a man retreats into the woods and discovers the joys of solitude and nature. The author recounts his experiences living alone in a small cabin he made himself at Walden Pond.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
Other Authors: Rossi, William John
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton, ©1992.
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Norton critical edition
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Table of Contents:
  • Walden
  • "Resistance to civil government"
  • The journal and Walden
  • Selections from the journal, 1845-54
  • [Review of Aesthetic papers]
  • [Review of Walden] / [Gamaliel Bailey?]
  • [Review of Walden] / Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard
  • Critical notice / A.P. Peabody
  • A Yankee Diogenes / Charles Frederick Briggs
  • [Review of A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers and Walden / [Lydia Maria Child?]
  • [Review of Walden] / George Eliot
  • Thoreau / Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Thoreau / James Russell Lowell
  • Walden : craftsmanship vs. technique / F.O. Matthiessen
  • Resolution at Walden / Sherman Paul
  • Walden, 1954 / E.B. White
  • Thoreau's politics of the upright man / Richard Drinnon
  • [Walden as transcendental pastoral design] / Leo Marx
  • Walden's false bottoms / Walter Benn Michaels
  • Thoreau's narrative art in "Civil disobedience" / Barry Wood
  • The remaking of Walden / Robert Sattelmeyer
  • A hound, a bay horse, and a turtle dove : obscurity in Walden / Barbara Johnson
  • The worlding of Walden / H. Daniel Peck
  • American pastoral ideology reappraised / Lawrence Buell.