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Walden, Civil Disobedience, and Other Writings, Third Edition (Norton Critical Editions)
Walden Civil Disobedience and Other Writings Third Edition - Norton Critical Editions Author:Henry David Thoreau 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 hi... more »s 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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