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WALDEN
Economy
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
Reading
Sounds
Solitude
Visitors
The Bean-Field
The Village
The Ponds
Baker Farm
Higher Laws
Brute Neighbors
House-Warming
Former Inhabitants and Winter Visitors
Winter Animals
The Pond in Winter
Spring
Conclusion
ON THE DUTY OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

INTRODUCTORY NOTE		ix
KTAADN		3
CHESUNCOOK		93
THE ALLEGASH AND EAST BRANCH		174
APPENDIX
	I. TREES	329
	II. FLOWERS AND SHRUBS	330
	III. LIST OF PLANTS	335
	IV. LIST OF BIRDS	347
	V. QUADRUPEDS	349
	VI. OUTFIT FOR AN EXCURSION	350
	VII. A LIST OF INDIAN WORDS	351
INDEX		359

SNOWBERRY, Carbon photograph ( page 227 )	Frontispiece
MOOSEHEAD LAKE, FROM MOUNT KINEO,	Colored plate
MAINE WILDERNESS	88
PINE TREE, BOAR MOUNTAIN	134
SQUAW MOUNTAIN, MOOSEHEAD LAKE	184
MOOSEHEAD LAKE, FROM MOUNT KINEO	194
MOUNT KINEO CLIFF	298

INTRODUCTORY NOTE		xi
EXCURSIONS
A YANKEE IN CANADA
I.	CONCORD TO MONTREAL	3
II.	QUEBEC AND MONTMORENCI	20
III.	ST. ANNE	40
IV.	THE WALLS OF QUEBEC	69
V.	THE SCENERY OF QUEBEC; AND THE RIVER ST. LAWRENCE	85
NATURAL HISTORY OF MASSACHUSETTS		103
A WALK TO WACHUSETT		133
THE LANDLORD		153
A WINTER WALK		163
THE SUCCESSION OF FOREST TREES		184
WALKING		205
AUTUMNAL TINTS		249
WILD APPLES		290
NIGHT AND MOONLIGHT		323 vi
TRANSLATIONS
THE PROMETHEUS BOUND OF ASCHYLUS		337
TRANSLATIONS FROM PINDAR		375
POEMS
NATURE		395
INSPIRATION		396
THE AURORA OF GUIDO		399
TO THE MAIDEN IN THE EAST		400
TO MY BROTHER		403
GREECE		404
THE FUNERAL BELL		405
THE MOON		406
THE FALL OF THE LEAF		407
THE THAW		409
A WINTER SCENE		410
TO A STRAY FOWL		411
POVERTY		412
PILGRIMS		413
THE DEPARTURE		414
INDEPENDENCE		415
DING DONG		417
OMNIPRESENCE		417
INSPIRATION (QUATRAIN)		418 vii
MISSION		418
DELAY		418
PRAYER		418

A LIST OF THE POEMS AND BITS OF VERSE SCATTERED AMONG THOREAU'S PROSE WRITINGS EXCLUSIVE OF THE JOURNAL		420
INDEX		423

APPLE BLOSSOMS, Carbon photograph (page 294)	Frontispiece
WILD APPLE TREE, Colored plate	Plate
MONTREAL FROM MOUNT ROYAL	98
MOUNT WACHUSETT FROM THE WAYLAND HILLS	134
THE OLD MARLBOROUGH ROAD	214
FALLEN LEAVES	270
WILD APPLE TREE	300

INTRODUCTION
I
YEARS OF DISCIPLINE
SKETCH OF THOREAU'S LIFE FROM BIRTH TO TWENTY YEARS	3
LETTERS TO HIS BROTHER JOHN AND SISTER HELEN	11
EARLY FRIENDSHIP AND CORRESPONDENCE WITH EMERSON AND HIS FAMILY	34
STATEN ISLAND AND NEW YORK LETTERS TO THE THOREAUS AND EMERSONS	68
II
THE GOLDEN AGE OF ACHIEVEMENT
CORRESPONDENCE WITH C. LANE, J. E. CABOT, EMERSON, AND BLAKE	120
III
FRIENDS AND FOLLOWERS
THE SHIPWRECK OF MARGARET FULLER	183
AN ESSAY ON LOVE AND CHASTITY	198 vi
MORAL EPISTLES TO HARRISON BLAKE OF WORCESTER	209
ACQUAINTANCE AND CORRESPONDENCE WITH DANIEL RICKETSON OF NEW BEDFORD	237
EXCURSIONS TO CAPE COD, NEW BEDFORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE, NEW YORK, AND NEW JERSEY	254
EXCURSIONS TO MONADNOCK AND MINNESOTA	364
LAST ILLNESS AND DEATH	395
APPENDIX: LETTERS TO ISAAC HECKER AND CALVIN H. GREENE	403

SABBATIA Carbon photograph ( page 264 )	Frontispiece
THOREAU'S BOAT-LANDING, CONCORD RIVER	Colored plate
HENRY D. THOREAU, FROM THE RICKETSON MEDALLION ( page 263 )	1
CONCORD BATTLE-GROUND	24
WALDEN WOODS	122
THE HOSMER HOUSE	154
THOREAU'S BOAT-LANDING, CONCORD RIVER	236
FROM THE SUMMIT OF MONADNOCK	370

INTRODUCTION	xix
CHAPTER I. 1837 ( At. 20) Opening of the Journal-Quotations from Goethe-Ducks at Goose Pond-The Arrowhead-With and Against the Stream-Discipline-Sunrise-Harmony-The World from a Hilltop-Hoar Frost-Measure-Thorns-Jack Frost-Druids-Immortality Post-The Saxons-Crystals-Revolutions-Heroes-The Interesting Facts in History.	3
CHAPTER II. 1838 ( At. 20-21) The Saxons-Hoar Frost-Zeno, the Stoic-Small Talk-Old Books-Greece-Goethe-Homer-A Sunday Scene-What to Do-Composition-Scraps from a Lecture on Society-The Indian Axe-Friendship-Conversation-The Bluebirds-Journey to Maine-May Morning-Walden-Cliffs-Heroism-Divine Service-The Sabbath Bell-Holy War-The Loss of a Tooth-Deformity-Crickets-Sphere Music-Alma Natura-Compensation-My Boots-Speculation-Byron-Fair Haven-Scraps from an Essay on Sound and Silence-Anacreon's Ode to the Cicada-Anacreontics.	25
CHAPTER III. 1839 ( At. 21-22) The Thaw-The Dream Valley-Love-The Evening Wind-The Peal of the Bells-The Shrike-Morning-The Teamster-Fat Pine for Spearing-Terra Firma in Society-The Kingdoms of the Earth-The Form of Strength-My Attic-Sympathy-Annursnack-The Assabet-The Breeze's Invitation-The Week on the Concord and Merrimack-The Walk to the White Mountains-The Wise Rest-Aschylus-Growth-Despondency-Linnaus-Bravery-Noon-Scraps xi from a Chapter on Bravery-Friendship-Crickets.	71
CHAPTER IV. 1840 ( At. 22-23) The Fisher's Son-Friends-Poetry-A Tame Life-Aschylus-Truth-Duty-Beauty lives by Rhymes-Fishes-Muskrats-The Freshet-Important Events-Ornithology-Inward Poverty-Wild Ducks-The World as a Theatre for Action-Rain-Farewell, Etiquette!-War-The Beginning of the Voyage on the Concord and Merrimack-The Boat-End of the Journal of 546 Pages-Reflections-A Sonnet to Profane Swearing-Down the Concord-The Landscape through a Tumbler-Likeness and Difference-A Drum in the Night-The Inspired Body-Dullness-The Yankee Answer-Greek Philosophers-Rhythm and Harmony-Evening-Paradox-Sailing-A Stately March-Effort the Prerogative of Virtue-The True Poem-Sunrise-A Muster-The Great Ball-Fishing and Sporting-The Golden Mean-Grecian History-The Eye-True Art-Necessity-Dress-Bravery.	110
CHAPTER V. 1841 ( At. 23-24) Routine-Stillness-Seriousness cutting Capers-Wealth is Power-A Dream-Suspicion-Resistance-Rough Usage-Trust in God-Journalizing-The Snow on the Pitch Pines-A Team coming out of the Woods-The Tracks of a Fox-Chasing a Fox-End of the Journal of 396 Pages-Repetition-Weight-Sincerity-The Etiquette of Keeping One's Seat-The Human Voice-Swiss Singers-Costume-The Value of the Recess in a Public Entertainment-Assisting Nature-Prophecy-The Geniality of Cold-Recognition of Greatness-Victory and Defeat-The Lover's Court-The Measure of Time-My Journal-The Industriousness of Vice-Overpraising-Silence-True Modesty-The Helper and the Helped-A Poor Farm-Bronchitis-A Good Book-The Leisure of Society and Nature-The Grandeur of the Storm-Music-Friends-The xii Care of the Body-The Best Medicine-Life-Diversion and Amusement-Composition-The Sound of a Horn-Boarding-Thoroughfares of Vice-Reproof-An Interpretation of Emerson's "Sphinx"-Homeliness in Books-Aubrey-The Loneliness of our Life-Seriousness-Magnanimity-Moral Reflections in a Work on Agriculture-Tea-Kettle and Cow-Bell-Plowing-Eclipsing Napoleon's Career-The True Reformer-Seeing-Friendship's Steadfastness-The Gods side with no Man-A Profane Expression-The Silence of the Woods-The Civilization of the Woods-The Oppression of the House-Shoulders-Approaching a Great Nature-The Use of a Cane-Wachusett-Navigation-The Pine-Westward Ho!-The Echo of the Sabbath Bell heard in the Woods-Books-The Laws of Menu-A Vermonter-The Moon through a Telescope-Immemorial Custom-An Unchangeable Morning Light-The Book of the Hindoos-History and Biography-The Form of a Mountain-Art and Nature-The Strains of a Flute-Earnestness-Afternoon-Various Sounds of the Crickets-The Work of Genius-The Idea of Man in the Hindoo Scripture-The Hindoo's Conception of Creation-Taste and Poetry-The Austerity of the Hindoos-The Only Obligation-Seines in the River-Moonlight the Best Restorer of Antiquity-A Poem to be called "Concord"-A Boat floating amid Reflections-Poetry-Directions for setting out Peach Trees and Grape-Vines-Experience at the Harvard Library-The English Poets-Saxon Poetry-Character-The Inward Morning-Music and Character-The Form of the Wind-Ancient Scotch Poetry-My Redeeming Qualities-The Smoke from an Invisible Farmhouse-Latent Eloquence-Ghosts-Sacred Forests-Thoughts of a Life at Walden-The Rich Man-The Trade of Life-True Greatness-Chaucer-Snowflakes-Books of Natural History.	173
CHAPTER VI. 1842 ( At. 24-25) Good Courage-The Church the Hospital for Men's Souls-Chaucer-Popped Corn-The Literary Style of the Laboring xiii Man-Sir Walter Raleigh-Calmness-The Perfume of the Earth-Unhealthiness of Morality-Music from a Music-Box-Raleigh's Faults-Man's Puny Fences-The Death of Friends-Chaucer the Poet of Gardens-Character and Genius-The History of Music-Chaucer's Way of Speaking of God-My Life-Dying a Transient Phenomenon-The Memory of Departed Friends-The Game of Love-A New Day-The Eye-Originality of Nature-Raleigh-The Most Attractive Sentences-Law and the Right-An Old Schoolmate-Carlyle's Writing-The Tracks of the Indian-The Stars and Man-Friendship-The Roominess of Nature-The Exuberance of Plain Speech-Action and Reflection-Common Sense in Very Old Books-Thoughts like Mountains-Insufficiency of Wisdom without Love-I am Time and the World-My Errand to Mankind-Two Little Hawks and a Great One-Flow in Books-Nature's Leniency toward the Vicious-Intercourse-A Fish Hawk-Poetry-Lydgate's "Story of Thebes"-Humor-Man's Destiny-The Economy of Nature.	308
CHAPTER VII. 1845-1846 ( At. 27-29) The Beginning of the Life at Walden-A House in the Catskills-The Vital Facts of Life-Relics of the Indians-Auxiliaries and Enemies of the Bean-Field-Therien, the Canadian Woodchopper-A Visit from Railroad Men-Life of Primitive Man-Wild Mice-The Written and the Spoken Language-The Interest and Importance of the Classics-The Fragrance of an Apple-The Race of Man-The Mansions of the Air-Echo-"The Crescent and the Cross"-Carnac-The Heroic Books-Screech Owls-Bullfrogs-Nature and Art-Childhood Memories of Walden Pond-Truth-John Field, a Shiftless Irishman, and his Family-A Hard and Emphatic Life-Language-Plastering the House-Primitive Houses-The Cost of a House-The Romans and Nature-Jehovah and Jupiter-Some Greek Myths-Difficulty of Getting a Living and Keeping out of Debt-The Fox as an Imperfect Man-Reading suggested by Hallam's History of Literature-The Necessaries of Life-A xiv Dog Lost-Therien and the Chickadees-The Evening Robin-The Earth as a Garden-A Flock of Geese.	361
CHAPTER VIII. 1845-1847 ( At. 27-30) The Hero-At Midnight's Hour-Wordsworth-Dying Young-The Present Time-Exaggeration-Carlyle's Discovery that he was not a Jackass-Longevity-Life and Death of Hugh Quoil, a Waterloo Soldier-Quoil's Deserted House-Old Clothes-Former Inhabitants of the Walden Woods-The Loon on Walden Pond-Ducks and Geese-The Pack of Hounds-An Unsuccessful Village-Concord Games-Animal Neighbors-Carlyle's Use of the Printer's Art-Northern Slavery-Brister and Zilpha-Making Bread-Emerson and Alcott-A Rabbit-A Town Officer.	403
CHAPTER IX. 1837-1847 ( At. 20-30) Friends-The Loading and Launching of the Boat-Gracefulness-On the Merrimack-The Era of the Indian-Fate of the Indian-Criticism's Apology-Life-Suspicion-The Purple Finch-Gower's Poetry-Light-Indian Implements-Success in Proportion to Average Ability-Kindness-Fog-The Attitude of Quarles and his Contemporaries towards Nature-The Mystery of Life-Three-o'clock-in-the-Morning Courage-A Recent Book-Museums-Some Old English Poets-Our Kindred-Friendship-Skating after a Fox-To a Marsh Hawk in the Spring-The Gardener-A Fisherman's Account at the Store-Finny Contemporaries-Marlowe-Thaw-Modern Nymphs-Living by Self-Defense-The Survival of the Birds-The Slaughter-House-The Tragedy of the Muskrat-Carlyle not to be Studied-The Subject of the Lecture-The Character of our Life-The Sovereignty of the Mind-Cooperation.	438 xvi

WHITE VIOLETS, Carbon photograph ( page 304)	Frontispiece
VIEW FROM ANNURSNACK HILL Colored plate	Colored plate
HENRY DAVID THOREAU IN 1854, FROM THE ROWSE CRAYON IN THE CONCORD PUBLIC LIBRARY	1
FROST CRYSTALS AT THE MOUTH OF A HOLE IN A BANK	22
VIEW FROM ANNURSNACK HILL	84
TREES REFLECTED IN THE RIVER	140
WINTER LANDSCAPE FROM FAIRHAVEN HILL	296 xviii

The Indian Guide's Evening Prayer	Frontispiece
The Stage on the Road to Moosehead Lake	8
Making a Camp in the Streamside Woodland	52
Fishing	72
The Red Squirrel	78
Coming down the Rapids	132
Shooting the Moose	154
Carrying round the Falls	180

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TABLES OF CONTENTS OF VOLUMES

WALDEN

and

ON THE DUTY OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

by Henry David Thoreau

CONTENTS

Wild Apples.

By Henry David Thoreau

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A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS

By Henry D. Thoreau

CONTENTS

C A P E C O D

By Henry D. Thoreau

Illustrated By Clifton Johnson

1908

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

THE MAINE WOODS

By Henry D. Thoreau

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

EXCURSIONS AND POEMS

By Henry D. Thoreau

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

FAMILIAR LETTERS

By Henry David Thoreau

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

JOURNAL

By Henry David Thoreau

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

CANOEING IN THE WILDERNESS

By Henry D. Thoreau

Illustrated By Will Hammell

ILLUSTRATIONS

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INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG
WORKS OF

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

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