Walden, Civil Disobedience, and Other Writing (3RD 08 Edition)

As a unique feature, the Third Edition includes generous excerpts from Thoreau's journal, reprinted by special arrangements with Princeton University Press from the definitive edition of his writings. Spanning the years 1845-54, these selections vividly display Thoreau's intensive exploration of his local landscape; the fusion of literary and natural history field work that informs Walden, "Walking," and "Wild Apples"; and the growth of his environmental imagination.

"Reviews and Posthumous Assessments" for this edition collects eight new reviews of Thoreau's antislavery and late environmental essays as well as of Walden. To the influential portraits of Thoreau by Ralph Waldo Emerson and James Russell Lowell, the Third Edition adds John Burroughs's "Another Word on Thoreau," his response to them and to his great predecessor.

"Recent Criticism" includes eighteen selections of the best historical, political, philosophical, poststructuralist, and environmental criticism of Thoreau's writing since the mid-twentieth century. To classic pieces by E. B. White, Leo Marx, Barbara Johnson, and Stanley Cavell, the Third Edition adds essays by nine new contributors, among them Laurence Buell, Laura Dassow Walls, Evan Carton, Robert A. Gross, Albert J. von Frank, Steven Fink, and William Rossi.

A Chronology of Thoreau's life and work, new to the Third Edition, and an expanded and updated Selected Bibliography are also included.

The third edition of Thoreau's two most influentials essays, Walden and Civil Disobedience, have been augmented with three additional essays that the author published after Walden. Editor Rossi (U. of Oregon) has also included reviews and criticisms of these major works in addition to "Slavery in Massachusetts," "Walking" and "Wild Apples," along with a basic chronology of Thoreau's life and literary works. This new version is a must for anyone who has previously enjoyed the work of Thoreau. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

This revised and expanded Third Edition adds three important post-Walden essays, "Slavery in Massachusetts," "Walking," and "Wild Apples," bringing the full scope of Thoreau's mature powers to twenty-first-century readers. The texts are accompanied by explanatory annotations, Thoreau's survey of Walden Pond, and the 1852 Walling map of Concord village and its environs.

'\'This revised and expanded Third Edition adds three important post-Walden essays, \\\"Slavery in Massachusetts,\\\" \\\"Walking,\\\" and \\\"Wild Apples,\\\" bringing the full scope of Thoreau\\\'s mature powers to twenty-first-century readers. The texts are accompanied by explanatory annotations, Thoreau\\\'s survey of Walden Pond, and the 1852 Walling map of Concord village and its environs.\\n

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'\'\\\'This revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition reprints the texts of Walden, Civil Disobedience, Slavery in Massachusetts, Walking, and Wild Apples.\\\\n

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'\'\\\'All are annotated for student readers. Also included are related selections from Thoreau\\\\\\\"s Journal.\\\\\\\'Reviews and Posthumous Assessments\\\\\\\' includes reactions to Thoreau and his writing by Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Russell Lowell, and James Burroughs, among others.\\\\\\\'Recent Criticism\\\\\\\' presents the best critical writing on the texts in this volume. F. O Matthiessen, E. B. White, Leo Marx, Stanley Cavell, Barbara Johnson, Laura Dassow Walls, Laurence Buell, Neill Matheson, and William Rossi are among the nineteen contributors.\\\'\''

William Rossi is Associate Professor of English at the University of Oregon. He is the editor of Wild Apples and Other Natural History Essays, co-editor of Henry D. Thoreau, Journal 3: 1848-1851 and Journal 6 (Princeton University Press), and author of numerous articles on American literature.