The Writings of Henry David Thoreau:
Journal, Volume 1: 1837-1844.
Henry David Thoreau
Edited by Elizabeth Witherell, William L. Howarth, Robert Sattelmeyer, and Thomas Blanding Edited by Elizabeth Witherell, William L. Howarth, Robert Sattelmeyer, and Thomas Blanding

Cloth | 1981 | $99.50 / £69.95
712 pp.

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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.

Other Princeton books by Henry David Thoreau:

• Cape Cod.
• Excursions.
• The Higher Law: Thoreau on Civil Disobedience and Reform.
• The Maine Woods.
• Walden.
• A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.
• The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Cape Cod.
• The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Early Essays and Miscellanies.
• The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Journal, Volume 2: 1842-1848.
• The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Journal, Volume 3: 1848-1851.
• The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Journal, Volume 4: 1851-1852.
• The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Journal, Volume 5: 1852-1853.
• The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Journal, Volume 6: 1853.
• The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Journal, Volume 7: 1853-1854.
• The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Journal, Volume 8: 1854.
• The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: The Maine Woods.
• The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Reform Papers.
• The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Translations.
• The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Walden.
• The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.

Other Princeton books by Elizabeth Hall Witherell:

• A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.
• The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.

Other Princeton books by William L. Howarth:

• A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.
• The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.

Other Princeton books by Robert Sattelmeyer:

• The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Journal, Volume 2: 1842-1848.
• The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Journal, Volume 3: 1848-1851.

Series:

• Writings of Henry D. Thoreau
  Elizabeth Hall Witherell, Editor-in-Chief

Subject Areas:

• American Language and Literature
• Literature: Primary Works and Letters

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