Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau published two books during his lifetime: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849) and Walden: Or, Life in the Woods (1854). Three additional books edited by his sister Sophia and his friend William Ellery Channing were published soon after his death: a collection of his travel essays titled Excursions (1863), The Maine Woods (1864), and Cape Cod (1864). During his lifetime Thoreau also published essays in various periodicals. They were generally of three kinds: travel essays such as “A Yankee...

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• Henry David Thoreau (Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century)
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• Civil Disobedience (Identities and Issues)
• Civil Disobedience (Magill Book Reviews)
• Essays of Henry David Thoreau, The (Masterplots Classics)
• Faith in a Seed (Magill Book Reviews)
• Faith in a Seed (Literary Annual Reviews)
• I am a parcel of vain strivings tied (Poetry)
• Inspiration (Poetry)
• Journal of Thoreau, The (Masterplots Classics)
• Poetry of Thoreau, The (Masterplots Classics)
• Walden (Masterplots Classics)
• Walden (Ethics)
• Walden (Identities and Issues)
• Walden (Magill Book Reviews)
• Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, A (Masterplots Classics)
• Within the Circuit of This Plodding Life (Poetry)
• English and American Poetry in the Nineteenth Century (Topical Overview--Poetry)
• Explicating Poetry (Topical Overview--Poetry)