Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition

Author: Thoreau, Henry DavidBrand: Yale University PressEdition: AnnotatedBinding: HardcoverFormat: IllustratedNumber Of Pages: 400Release Date: 11-07-2004Part Number: 6ill.Details: The ultimate gift edition of Walden for bibliophiles, aficionados, and scholars “Replaces all other available editions of Walden as the most attractive and reliable way to approach this great American book.”—Joel Porte, author of Consciousness and Culture: Emerson and Thoreau Reviewed This is the authoritative edition of an American literary 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 provided 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 eme