内容简介
For this Norton Critical Edition, the texts of both Walden and "Resistance to Civil Government" are again based on their first editions. The editor has incorporated all of Thoreau's additions to Walden, and these and all other emendations are now summarized in a table of textual variants. Throughout, annotations have been revised and expanded.
As a special feature, the Second Edition includes a much-expanded selection from Thoreau's Journal, most of it reprinted by special arrangement with Princeton University Press from the definitive edb tion of his writings. Drawing upon newly available material written during Thoreau's two-year stay at Walden Pond and accompanied by the editor's essay on "The Journal and Walden," these selections represent and illuminate the entire 1845 54 period, during which Thoreau wrote, rewrote, and extensively revised Walden.
As a special feature, the Second Edition includes a much-expanded selection from Thoreau's Journal, most of it reprinted by special arrangement with Princeton University Press from the definitive edb tion of his writings. Drawing upon newly available material written during Thoreau's two-year stay at Walden Pond and accompanied by the editor's essay on "The Journal and Walden," these selections represent and illuminate the entire 1845 54 period, during which Thoreau wrote, rewrote, and extensively revised Walden.