Dec 18, 2009
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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