Walden: A Fully Annotated EditionThe ultimate gift edition of Walden for bibliophiles, aficionados, and scholars This is the authoritative edition of an American literaru classic: Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, an elegantly written record of his experiment in simple living. With this edition, Thoreau scholar Jeffrey S. Cramer has meticulously corrected errors and omissions from previous editions of Walden and here provides illuminating notes on the biographical, historical, and geographical contexts of the great nineteenth-century writer and thinker's life. Cramer’s newly edited text is based on the original 1854 edition of Walden, with emendations taken from Thoreau’s draft manuscripts, his own markings on the page proofs, and notes in his personal copy of the book. In the editor’s notes to the volume, Cramer quotes from sources Thoreau actually read, showing how he used, interpreted, and altered these sources. Cramer also glosses Walden with references to Thoreau’s essays, journals, and correspondence. With the wealth of material in this edition, readers will find an unprecedented opportunity to immerse themselves in the unique and fascinating world of Thoreau. Anyone who has read and loved Walden will want to own and treasure this gift edition. Those wishing to read Walden for the first time will not find a better guide than Jeffrey S. Cramer. |
Contents
| 1 | |
Lived and What I Lived For | 86 |
Reading | 106 |
Sounds | 119 |
Solitude | 139 |
The BeanField | 168 |
The Village | 182 |
Baker Farm | 219 |
HouseWarming | 259 |
Former Inhabitants and Winter Visitors | 278 |
Winter Animals | 294 |
Spring | 324 |
Conclusion | 347 |
afterword | 363 |
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Common terms and phrases
Æschylus animal Baker Farm bark beans beautiful birds bottom called cellar clothes color commonly Concord Concord River corrected dark deep distant door earth Edward Dahlberg eyes Fair Haven farm farmer feet fire fish Fitchburg Railroad follow Huntington forest Gondibert grass green ground half hand hear heard heaven hills hole hour human hunter hyphenated inch Indian John Field johnswort keep labor learned leaves live Loch Fyne look man’s meadow Merrimack Rivers mile morning muskrats Nature neighbors never night once perchance perhaps pickerel pine pitch-pine poor railroad rain red squirrels rods sand season shore side snow sometimes sound spring squirrels stand stones summer surface things Thomas Carlyle Thoreau thought Tidore tion town traveller trees true village Walden Pond walk warm wigwam wild wind winter woodchuck woods