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‘‘Walden’’ and Other Writings, edited by Brooks Atkinson and with an excellent introduction by Ralph Waldo Emerson, is a collection of Thoreau’s major works, including additional nature writing and political essays such as ‘‘Civil Disobedience’’ and ‘‘A Plea for Captain John Brown.’’ First published in 1937, the collection was republished in a new edition in 2000.

Essays: First and Second Series (1990), edited by Douglas Crase, collects the major essays of Thoreau’s mentor and friend, Ralph Waldo Emerson. These essays were...

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