The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Reform Papers.

    Edited by
  • Wendell Glick

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ISBN:
Published:
Feb 21, 1974
Copyright:
1974
Pages:
416
Size:
5 x 8 in.

The selections from the polemical writings of Thoreau that make up Reform Papers represent every stage in his twenty-two years of active writing. Consequently, they are a microcosm of his literary career, allowing the reader to achieve a full sense of Thoreau’s evolution as a writer and thinker. The volume opens with 鈥淭he Service,鈥� one of the best examples of Thoreau’s early style and interests, and contains ten other essays as well.


Reform Papers:


  • The Service

  • Paradise (To Be) Regained

  • Herald of Freedom

  • Wendell Phillips Before Concord Lyceum

  • Resistance to Civil Government

  • Slavery in Massachusetts

  • A Plea for Captain John Brown

  • Martyrdom of John Brown

  • The Last Days of John Brown

  • Life without Principle

  • Reform and the Reformers