The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

Core works and topics Civil Disobedience Herald of Freedom The Last Days of John Brown Life Without Principle Paradise (to be) Regained A Plea for Captain John Brown Reform and the Reformers Remarks After the Hanging of John Brown The Service Sir Walter Raleigh Slavery in Massachusetts Thomas Carlyle and His Works Walden A Walk to Wachusett A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau Thoreau Society
Related topics Abolitionism Anarchism Anarchism in the United States Civil disobedience Concord, Massachusetts Conscientious objection Direct action Ecology Environmentalism History of tax resistance Individualist anarchism John Brown Lyceum movement Nonviolent resistance Ralph Waldo Emerson Simple living Tax resistance Tax resisters Transcendentalism The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail Walden Pond

The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau is a project that aims to provide, for the first time, accurate texts of the complete works of Henry David Thoreau, the American author, including his journal, his personal letters, and his writings for publication. Since the project was founded in 1966, Princeton University Press has published sixteen of its volumes.

The project is located in the Davidson Library at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is directed by Elizabeth Witherell. Funds for the project come from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the National Trust for the Humanities, and UC Santa Barbara.^[1]

Goal

The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau has already published sixteen volumes: Walden, The Maine Woods, Reform Papers, Early Essays and Miscellanies, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Translations, Excursions, Cape Cod, and Journals 1-8 .

When completed, The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau will comprise fourteen more volumes (thirty in total): Correspondence (3 volumes), Poems, Nature Essays (2 volumes), and Journals 9-16.

All of these works were either previously unpublished or incorrectly or incompletely transcribed.^[2]

Award

Since Thoreau's writings have such an impact on American history and culture, NEH designated the Thoreau Edition as a "We the People" project in June 2003. ^[3]

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Henry David Thoreau

Speeches	Remarks After the Hanging of John Brown (1859)

Essays	"The Service" (1840) "A Walk to Wachusett" (1842) "Paradise (to be) Regained" (1843) "Sir Walter Raleigh" (1844) "Herald of Freedom" (1844) "Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum" (1845) "Reform and the Reformers" (1846–48) "Thomas Carlyle and His Works" (1847) "Resistance to Civil Government" ("Civil Disobedience") (1849) "Slavery in Massachusetts" (1854) "A Plea for Captain John Brown" (1859) "The Last Days of John Brown" (1860) "Walking" (1861) "Life Without Principle" (1863) Excursions anthology (1863)

Books	A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849) Walden (1854)

Related	Thoreau Society The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau Wheeler-Minot Farmhouse Concord Museum Walden Pond Walden Woods Project The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail (1969 play)

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The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau

Goal

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