Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Henry David Thoreau — Context and Discussion

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## WALDEN, AND ON THE DUTY OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

A PLEA FOR CAPTAIN JOHN BROWN

## A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS

BIOGRAPHY and EXCURSIONS

## EXCURSIONS AND POEMS

## CANOEING IN THE WILDERNESS

TABLES OF CONTENTS OF VOLUMES

WALDEN and ON THE DUTY OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE by Henry David Thoreau

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

Wild Apples. By Henry David Thoreau CONTENTS

THE HISTORY OF THE APPLE-TREE. THE WILD APPLE.

HOW THE WILD APPLE GROWS.

THE FRUIT, AND ITS FLAVOR.

THE "FROZEN-THAWED" APPLE.

A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK RIVERS By Henry D. Thoreau

CONTENTS CONCORD RIVER.

C A P E C O D By Henry D. Thoreau Illustrated By Clifton Johnson 1908 CONTENTS

Introduction I The Shipwreck II Stage-coach Views III The Plains Of Nauset IV The Beach V The Wellfleet Oysterman VI The Beach Again VII Across the Cape VIII The Highland Light IX The Sea and the Desert X Provincetown ILLUSTRATIONS

The Clam-Digger (Photogravure) Cohasset—The little cove at Whitehead promontory An old windmill A street in Sandwich The old Higgins tavern at Orleans A Nauset lane Nauset Bay A scarecrow Millennium Grove camp- meeting grounds A Cape Cod citizen Wreckage under the sand-bluff Herring River at Wellfleet A characteristic gable with many windows A Wellfleet oysterman Wellfleet Hunting for a leak Truro—Starting on a voyage Unloading the day's catch A Truro footpath Truro meeting-house on the hill A herd of cows Pond Village Dragging a dory up on the beach An old wrecker at home The Highland Light Towing along shore A cranberry meadow The sand dunes drifting in upon the trees The white breakers on the Atlantic side In Provincetown harbor Provincetown—A bit of the village from the wharf The day of rest A Provincetown fishing-vessel

THE MAINE WOODS By Henry D. Thoreau CONTENTS 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 ILLUSTRATIONS 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

EXCURSIONS AND POEMS By Henry D. Thoreau CONTENTS 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 ÆSCHYLUS 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

ix ILLUSTRATIONS 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

FAMILIAR LETTERS By Henry David Thoreau

CONTENTS 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 GENERAL INDEX TO THOREAU'S WORKS 417

vii ILLUSTRATIONS 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

JOURNAL By Henry David Thoreau CONTENTS INTRODUCTION xix CHAPTER I. 1837 (Æt. 20)