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Henry David Thoreau's Essays, in Collections

as outlined in episode seven of the video series, Studying Thoreau.

Here's a spreadsheet that shows which essays are found in which volumes.

Click on titles or photos to reach purchase links.

Classic Collections, in mostly chronological order:  
 

Excursions (1863):  [9 essays]
Thoreau, Henry David. Excursions. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1863.
Also includes Ralph Waldo Emerson’s biographical sketch of Thoreau, which had been published in the August 1862 issue of The Atlantic Monthly.

 

Yankee / Reform (1866):  [9 essays]
Thoreau, Henry David. A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1866.
Also includes the five essay-chapters that make up A Yankee in Canada, as well as (by mistake?) Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay, “Prayers.”

 

 
Excursions (1893):  [9 essays]
Thoreau, Henry David. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau. Volume IX: Excursions. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1893.
Includes the five essay-chapters of A Yankee in Canada. Also includes “May Days” and “Days and Nights in Concord:” two unique collections of entries from Thoreau’s journal, gleaned from days in Mays, and then from days in Augusts and Septembers.

 

 

Miscellanies (1893):  [11 essays]
Thoreau, Henry David. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau. Volume X: Miscellanies. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1893.
Also includes Emerson’s biographical sketch of Thoreau, as well as an index to the set. plus “The Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus,” “Translations from Pindar,” and 10 poems.

 

 

Cape Cod and Miscellanies (1906):  [11 essays]
Thoreau, Henry David. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau. Volume 4: Cape Cod and Miscellanies. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1906.
Of course: also includes the full text of Cape Cod.

 

Excursions and Poems (1906):  [9 essays]
Thoreau, Henry David. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau. Volume 5: Excursions and Poems. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1906.
Includes the five essay-chapters of A Yankee in Canada, as well as "The Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus," "Translations from Pindar" and 22+ poems.

 

Portable (1947, 1962, et. al):  [6 essays]
Bode, Carl, ed. The Portable Thoreau. New York: Penguin Books, 1947, 1962, et. al.
Also includes A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers and Walden; parts of The Maine Woods, A Yankee in Canada, and Cape Cod; some Journal entries; and 18 poems.

 

Portable (2012):  [6 essays]
Cramer, Jeffrey S., ed. The Portable Thoreau. New York: Penguin Books, 2012.
Also includes Walden; parts of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, and Cape Cod; some Journal entries; some Correspondence; and 21 poems.

 

Reform Papers (1973):  [11 essays]
Thoreau, Henry David. Reform Papers. (The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau) Edited by Wendell Glick. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973.
These contents are the same as Higher Law (2004).

 

Higher Law (2004):  [11 essays]
Glick, Wendell, ed. The Higher Law: Thoreau on Civil Disobedience and Reform. With an introduction by Howard Zinn. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004.
These contents are the same as Reform Papers (1973).

 

Early Essays and Miscellanies (1975): [8 common essays]
Thoreau, Henry David. Early Essays and Miscellanies. (The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau) Edited by Joseph J. Moldenhauer, Edwin Moser, and Alexander C. Kern. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975.
Contains a total of 53 essays.

 

Excursions (2007):  [8 essays]
Moldenhauer, Joseph J., ed. Excursions. (The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau) Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. 
Also includes the five essay-chapters of A Yankee in Canada.

 

Dover (1993):  [5 essays]
Thoreau, Henry David. Civil Disobedience and Other Essays. (Dover Thrift Editions) New York: Dover Publications, 1993, 2016.

 

   
Library of America (2001):  [26 essays]
Thoreau, Henry David. Collected Essays and Poems. (Library of America) Edited by Elizabeth Hall Witherell. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, 2001.
Also includes the five essay-chapters of A Yankee in Canada.

 

Library of America (2007):  [26 essays]
Thoreau, Henry David. Walden, The Maine Woods, Collected Essays and Poems. (Library of America College Editions) New York: Literary of America, 2007.
Also includes the five essay-chapters of A Yankee in Canada.

 

Hyde (2002): [12 essays]
Hyde, Lewis, ed. The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau. New York: North Point Press, 2002.
Also includes “Ktaadn.”

 

Rossi (2002): [8 essays]
Rossi, William, ed. Wild Apples and Other Natural History Essays. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2002.

 

Cramer (2013):  [15 essays]
Thoreau, Henry David. Essays: A Fully Annotated Edition. Edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. 
The only truly annotated essay volume available.

 

 

Individual essays, as books.

 
Civil Disobedience. Applewood Books. Hardcover, 36 pp.

 

Walking. Applewood Books, 1992. 60 pp. Paperback.

 

Autumnal Tints. Applewood Books, 1996. 62 pp. Paperback.

 

Wild Apples. Applewood Books, 1862 (reprint). 20 pp. Paperback.

 

Winter Walk. Applewood Books. Hardcover, 20 pp.

 

Friendship. Publishers and dates vary. Is actually the "Wednesday" chapter of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.

 

 

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