The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 1: Journal, Volume 1: 1837-1844.
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 1: Journal, Volume 1: 1837-1844.
By (Author) Henry David Thoreau
Edited by Elizabeth Hall Witherell
Edited by William L. Howarth
Edited by Robert Sattelmeyer
Edited by Thomas Blanding
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
4th January 1982
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
818.309
Physical Properties
Hardback
716
Width 127mm, Height 203mm
794g
Description
This first volume of the Journal covers the early years of Thoreau's rapid intellectual and artistic growth. The Journal reflects his reading, travels, and contacts with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and other Transcendentalists. With characteristic reticence, Thoreau mentions only a few episodes in his emotional history: an ill-fated romance, the death of his elder brother, and an unhappy sojourn on Staten Island, where he tried to write for New York periodicals. Parts of Thoreau's Journal have been published, but always with large omissions of text and with considerable grooming of its erratic manuscript style. This edition presents the entire surviving manuscript in a text preserving Thoreau's words as he originally wrote them.
