Record details

• ISBN: 1883011957 (alk. paper)
• ISBN: 9781883011956 (alk. paper)
• Physical Description: xiv, 703 p. ; 21 cm.
• Publisher: New York : Library of America : c2001.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Essays. Aulus Persius Flaccus -- The service -- Natural history of Massachusetts -- A walk to Wachusett -- Sir Walter Raleigh -- Dark ages -- A winter walk -- The landlord -- Paradise (to be) regained -- Homer. Ossian. Chaucer : extracts from a lecture on poetry read before the Concord Lyceum, November 29, 1843 by Henry D. Thoreau -- Herald of freedom -- Wendell Phillips before Concord Lyceum -- Thomas Carlyle and his works -- Civil disobedience -- Walking -- A Yankee in Canada -- Love -- Chastity & sensuality -- Slavery in Massachusetts -- Life without principle -- Autumnal tints -- A plea for Captain John Brown -- Martyrdom of John Brown -- The last days of John Brown -- The succession of forest trees : an address before the Middlesex (Mass.) Agricultural Society -- Wild apples -- Huckleberries -- Poems.

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