A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Capa
Princeton University Press, 1980 - 610 páginas

In the late summer of 1839 Thoreau and his elder brother John made a two-week boat-and-hiking trip from Concord, Massachusetts, to the White Mountains of New Hampshire. After John's sudden death in 1842, Henry began to prepare a memorial account of their excursion. At Walden Pond he wrote two drafts of this story, which he continued to revise and expand until 1849, when he arranged for its publication at his own expense. The contemporary audience for A Week was troubled by its heterodoxy and apparent formlessness; but modern readers have come to see it as an appropriate predecessor to Walden, with Thoreau's story of a river journey actually depicting the early years of his spiritual and artistic growth.

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Concord River
5
Saturday
15
Sunday
43
Monday
117
Tuesday
179
Wednesday
235
Thursday
298
Friday
334
Acknowledgments
425
Editorial Contributions
427
List of Abbreviations
429
Historical Introduction
435
Textual Introduction
501
Textual Notes
545
Table of Textual Variants
561
Table of Emendations
599

Index
395
EDITORIAL APPENDIX
415
Notes on Illustrations
417
EndofLine Hyphenation
607
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