Product Description: Thoreau's Reading charts Henry Thoreau's intellectual growth and its relation to his literary career from 1833, when he entered Harvard College, to his death in 1862. It also furnishes a catalogue of nearly fifteen hundred entries of his reading, compiled from references and allusions in his published writings, journal, correspondence, library charging records, the catalogue of his personal library, and his many unpublished notebooks and commonplace books...read more

Alphabetically arranged entries use an integrated 'new historicist' approach to offer a comprehensive overview of the period that spans the early national era through the Civil War to the end of World War I.

Product Description: From 1837 to 1861, Thoreau kept a Journal that began as a conventional record of ideas, grew into a writer's notebook, and eventually became the principal imaginative work of his career. The source of much of his published writing, the Journal is also a record of his interior life and of his monumental studies of the natural history of his native Concord, Massachusetts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is generally acknowledged along with "Moby-Dick" and "The Scarlet Letter" not only as one of the two or three greatest American fables, but also as a story that speaks perennially to the American experience, and it has generated some of the liveliest and perhaps most significant debates in American literary history...read more

Product Description: Volume two of the Journal includes Thoreau's extensive reminiscences of his 1839 excursion with his brother John along the Concord and Merrimack rivers and all his first impressions and observations entered in journals during the famous Walden sojourn...read more