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The Higher Law 150th
The Higher Law 150th
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Thoreau, Henry D. The Higher Law. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2004. 209 pp.

Modern language association of America, center for editions of American authors, approved text. Excellent for the serious student of Thoreau. Edited by Wendell Glick with an introduction by Howard Zinn.
Autumnal Tints
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Thoreau, Henry D. Autumnal Tints. Bedford, MA.: Applewood Books, 1996. 62 pp. Paperback.

Thoreau’s classic essay on the colors of fall. Autumnal Tints was culled from The Fall of a Leaf and was originally published in the October 1862 edition of Atlantic Monthly. By the time it was published, Thoreau had already died (May 6).
Civil Disobedience (Dover)
Civil Disobedience (Dover)
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Thoreau, Henry David. Civil Disobedience and Other Essays. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1993. 90 pp. Paperback.
Five of Thoreau’s most frequently cited essays including “Civil Disobedience,” “Life without Principle,” “Walking,” “Slavery in Massachusetts,” and ”A Plea for Captain John Brown”.
Early Essays
Early Essays
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Thoreau, Henry D. Early Essays and Miscellanies. Edited by Joseph J. Moldenhauer and Edwin Moser, with Alexander C. Kern. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1975. 430 pp. Cloth.
Modern language association of America, center for editions of American authors, approved text. Excellent for the serious student of Thoreau.
Nature/Walking
Nature/Walking
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, and Henry D. Thoreau. Nature/Walking. Boston: Beacon Press, 1991. 122pp. Paperback.

Together in one volume, Emerson’s Nature and Thoreau’s "Walking," writing that helps define our distinctly American relationship to nature.
Reform Papers
Reform Papers
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Thoreau, Henry D. Reform Papers. Edited by Wendell Glick. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1973. 402pp. Cloth.

Modern language association of America, center for editions of American authors, approved text. Excellent for the serious student of Thoreau.
Walking by Henry David Thoreau
Walking
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Thoreau, Henry D. Walking. Bedford, MA.: Applewood Books, 1992. 60pp. Paperback.

First published in 1862, Thoreau's essay "Walking" includes such famous quotations as:
"In wildness is the preservation of the world."

"So we saunter toward the Holy Land; till one day the sun shall shine more brightly than ever he has done, shall perchance shine into our minds and hearts, and light up our whole lives with a great awakening light, so warm and serene and golden as on a bank-side in Autumn."

This essay is also available with Emerson's essay "Nature" in Nature/Walking.

Wild Apples
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Thoreau, Henry D. Wild Apples. Bedford, MA.: Applewood Books, 1862 (reprint). 20pp. Paperback.

Thoreau’s "Wild Apples" first appeared in "The Atlantic Monthly" in November 1862. It begins with a short history of the apple tree--tracing the path from ancient Greece to America.
Essays of Henry D. Thoreau
Essays of Henry D. Thoreau
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Thoreau, Henry D. The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau. Edited by Lewis Hyde. New York: North Point Press, 2002. 390 pp. Paperback.

Introduction by the editor, Lewis Hyde. Essays included are: "Natural History of Massachusetts," "A Winter Walk," "Paradise (to be) Regained," "Ktaadn," "Civil Disobedience," "Walking," "Slavery in Massachusetts," "Life without Principle," "Autumnal Tints," "The Succession of Forest Trees," "A Plea for Captain John Brown," "The Last Days of John Brown," and "Wild Apples."

Major Essays of Henry David Thoreau
Major Essays of Henry David Thoreau
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Thoreau, Henry David. The Major Essays of Henry David Thoreau. Edited by Richard Dillman. Albany, New York: Whitston Publishing Company, Inc., 2001. 284 pp. Paperback.

Thoreau's most influential essays, divided into three sections: I. Reform Essays: Politics and Ethics; II. Informal Essays: Excursions; III. Natural History Essays