The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861 (New York Review Books Classics)

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Henry David Thoreau’s Journal used to be his life’s work: the day-to-day practice of writing that accompanied his day-to-day walks, the workshop where he developed his books and essays, and a project in its own right—one of the crucial intensive explorations ever made of the on a regular basis environment, the revolving seasons, and the changing self. This can be a treasure trove of probably the most finest prose in English and, for those conversant in it, its prismatic pages exercise a hypnotic fascination. Yet at more or less seven thousand pages, or two million words, it remains Thoreau’s least-known work.

This reader’s edition, the largest one-volume edition of Thoreau’s Journal ever published, is the first to capture the scope, rhythms, and variety of the work as a whole. Ranging freely over the world at large, the Journal is no less devoted to the life within. As Thoreau says, “It’s in vain to write at the seasons unless you have the seasons in you.”

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