Author talk:Henry David Thoreau

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Individual volumes are listed with priority work first. For the collection writings, the Journal volumes are priority, because volumes 1 through 6 mostly duplicate earlier copies.

Current projects

 * AWAITING VALIDATION
 * Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854)
 * Excursions (1863), anthology containing nine essays and a biographical sketch
 * A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)
 * Early Spring in Massachusetts: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau (1881)
 * Sir Walter Raleigh


 * INDIVIDUAL VOLUMES
 * The Maine Woods (1864)
 * Familiar Letters of Henry David Thoreau (1894), edited by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (= vol. 11 appended to the 1893 collection in 1894)
 * Summer: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau (1884), edited by H. G. O. Blake
 * Winter: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau (1888), edited by H. G. O. Blake
 * Autumn: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau (1892), edited by H. G. O. Blake


 * WORKS ABOUT
 * "Thoreau's Flute", an elegy by Louisa May Alcott [Sep 1863] (1950)


 * COLLECTED WRITINGS
 * The Writings of Henry David Thoreau (1906) in 20 vols. For any works with errors, substitute volumes may be found at IA via California Digital Library copies (with exception of Vol 4).
 * Volume 1: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
 * Volume 2: Walden
 * Volume 3: The Maine Woods
 * Volume 4: Cape Cod and Miscellanies
 * Volume 5: Excursions and Poems [with Translations]
 * Volume 6: Familiar Letters [expanded]
 * Volume 7: Journal Volume 1 (1837-1846)
 * Volume 8: Journal Volume 2 (1850-September 15, 1851)
 * Volume 9: Journal Volume 3 (September 16, 1851-April 30, 1852)
 * Volume 10: Journal Volume 4 (May 1, 1852-February 27, 1853) (index checked)
 * Volume 11: Journal Volume 5 (March 5, 1853-November 30, 1853)
 * Volume 12: Journal Volume 6 (December 1, 1853-August 31, 1854)
 * Volume 13: Journal Volume 7 (September 1, 1854-October 30, 1855)
 * Volume 14: Journal Volume 8 (November 1, 1855-August 15, 1856)
 * Volume 15: Journal Volume 9 (August 16, 1856-August 7, 1857)
 * Volume 16: Journal Volume 10 (August 8, 1857-June 29, 1858)
 * Volume 17: Journal Volume 11 (July 2, 1858-February 28, 1859)
 * Volume 18: Journal Volume 12 (March 2, 1859-November 30, 1859)
 * Volume 19: Journal Volume 13 (December 1, 1859-July 31, 1860)
 * Volume 20: Journal Volume 14 (August 1, 1860-November 3, 1861)


 * END MATTER ONLY
 * Cape Cod (1865)


 * DONE
 * A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers (1866), anthology of essays and addresses


 * DUPLICATE SETS
 * The Writings of Henry David Thoreau (1893) in 11 vols. Eclipsed by the 1906 edition above.
 * Index:The writings of Henry David Thoreau, v5.djvu (Early Spring in Massachusetts)


 * The Writings of Henry David Thoreau (1899) in 11 vols. Eclipsed by the 1906 edition above.
 * Index:The writings of Henry David Thoreau, v1.djvu (A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers)
 * Index:The writings of Henry David Thoreau, v3.djvu (The Maine Woods)


 * The Writings of Henry David Thoreau (1900) in 11 vols. Riverside edition. Eclipsed by the 1906 edition above.
 * Index:The writings of Henry David Thoreau, v2.djvu (Walden)
 * Index:The writings of Henry David Thoreau, v4.djvu (Cape Cod)

Audio versions
There are apparently these freely available audio versions of Thoreau's work:
 * Walden and quite a few others at LibriVox here and these also from LibriVox.
 * Another version of Walden here by Gord Mackenzie
 * Walden read by Gord Mackenzie
 * Multiple other versions of Walden mentioned here
 * Two French versions of Thoreau, among others, =mediatype%3A%22audio%22 here], along with a number of others =mediatype%3A%22audio%22 here]. John Carter (talk) 18:50, 6 February 2017 (UTC)