W. W. Norton & Company : College Books

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• Norton Critical Editions
• American List

• Henry David Thoreau

• Walden, Civil Disobedience, and Other Writings

• Third Edition
• Edited by William Rossi, University of Oregon
• ISBN-10: 0-393-93090-4 • ISBN-13: 978-0-393-93090-0 • paper • 512 pages • 1 map
• Now Available

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Overview

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

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