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The Correspondence of Henry D. Thoreau: Volume 2: 1849-1856 (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau, 28) by Henry David Thoreau, Robert N. Hudspeth (editor), Elizabeth Hall Witherell (editor), Ihong Xie (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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"[Constitutes] the first full-scale scholarly edition of Thoreau's correspondence. When completed, the edition's three volumes will include every extant letter written or received by Thoreau--in all, almost 650 letters, roughly 150 more than in any previous edition, including dozens that have never before been published. Correspondence 1 contains 163 letters, ninety-six written by Thoreau and sixty-seven to him. Twenty-five are collected here for the first time; of those, fourteen have never before been published. These letters provide an intimate view of Thoreau's path from college student to published author. At the beginning of the volume, Thoreau is a Harvard sophomore; by the end, some of his essays and poems have appeared in periodicals and he is at work on A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers and Walden. The early part of the volume documents Thoreau's friendships with college classmates and his search for work after graduation, while letters to his brother and sisters reveal warm, playful relationships among the siblings. In May 1843, Thoreau moves to Staten Island for eight months to tutor a nephew of Emerson's. This move results in the richest period of letters in t
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- Author
- Henry David Thoreau, Robert N. Hudspeth (editor), Elizabeth Hall Witherell (editor), Ihong Xie (editor)
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781400851041
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Collections, Literary Fiction, Memoir
- Rating
- 4.6 / 5 (5 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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