When completed, the edition’s three volumes will include every extant letter written or received by... One of the most influential and compelling books in American literature, Walden is a vivid ...
Volume two of the Journal includes Thoreau's extensive reminiscences of his 1839 excursion with his brother John along the Concord and Merrimack rivers and all his first impressions and observations ...
Opening with a quotation from Henry David Thoreau’s 1863 essay “Life Without Principle” including the lines “Let us consider the way in which we spend our lives / This world is a place of business / ...