By Henry D. Thoreau

RIVERSIDE EDITION

I. A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRI-
MACK RIVERS.

II. WALDEN; OR, LIFE IN THE WOODS.

III. THE MAINE WOODS.

IV. CAPE COD.

V. EARLY SPRING IN MASSACHUSETTS.
VI. SUMMER. With a Map of Concord.

VII. AUTUMN.

VIII. WINTER.

IX. EXCURSIONS.

X. MISCELLANIES.

With a Biographical Sketch

by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

XI. FAMILIAR LETTERS. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by Frank B. Sanborn.

The Same. Riverside Pocket Edition, 11 vols. Flexible leather.

NOTES ON NEW ENGLAND BIRDS.
F. H. ALLEN.

Edited by

Holiday

WALDEN; OR, LIFE IN THE WOODS. Edition. With an Introduction by Bradford Torrey, and 28 full-page photogravure illustrations.

The Same. Cambridge Classics. With a Biographical Sketch by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

The Same. Riverside Aldine Series. 2 vols. THOREAU'S THOUGHTS. Selections from the Writings of Henry D. Thoreau. Edited by H. G. O. Blake. With Bibliography.

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Riverside Edition

THE WRITINGS OF

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

WITH BIBLIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTIONS
AND FULL INDEXES

VOLUME II

1504

OR, LIFE IN THE WOODS

BY

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but
to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning,
standing on his roost, if only to wake my neighbors up