...sales 219 copies. ' I have now a library of nearly 900 volumes,' he says, consoling himself, ' over 700 of which I wrote myself. Is it not well that the author should behold the fruits of his labor? ' In spite of this betakes up his pen that night with as much satisfaction as ever, and believes this...

...sales 219 copies. " I have now a library of nearly 900 volumes," he says, consoling himself, "over 700 of which I wrote myself. Is it not well that the author should behold the fruits of his labor?" In spite of this he takes up his pen that night with as much satisfaction as ever, and believes this...

...sales 219 copies. " I have now a library of nearly 900 volumes," he says, consoling himself, "over 700 of which I wrote myself. Is it not well that the author should behold the fruits of his labor?" In spite of this he takes up his pen that night with as much satisfaction as ever, and believes this...

...origin. Of the remaining two hundred ninety and odd, seventy -five were given away, the rest sold. I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes,...well that the author should behold the fruits of his labour ? My works are piled up in my chamber, half as high as my head, my opera omnia. This is authorship....

...290 and odd, 75 were given away, the rest gold. I have now a library of nearly 900 volumes, over 700 of which I wrote myself. Is it not well that the author...behold the fruits of his labor ? My works are piled up on one side of my chamber half as high as my head, my opera omnia. This is authorship, these are the...

...290 and odd, 75 were given away, the rest sold. I have now a library of nearly 900 volumes, over 700 of which I wrote myself. Is it not well that the author...behold the fruits of his labor ? My works are piled up on one side of my chamber half as high as my head, my opera omnia. This is authorship, these are the...

...290 and odd, 75 were given away, the rest sold. I have now a library of nearly 900 volumes, over 700 of which I wrote myself. Is it not well that the author...behold the fruits of his labor ? My works are piled up on one side of my chamber half as high as my head, my opera omnia. This was authorship, these are the...

...worship, as the sunflower welcomes the light." Reputation. Thoreau was not appreciated in his lifetime. " I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself." (Referring to the first edition of A Week, which consisted of a thousand copies.) In England, Thoreau...

...unsold copies upstairs to the garret and then made the characteristically witty entry in his journal, " I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself." Five years after the publication of the " Week " Thoreau issued his second book, the only other volume...

...hundred of which I wrote myself. Is it not well that the author should behold the fruits of his labour ? My works are piled up in my chamber, half as high as my head, my opera omnta. This is authorship. These are the work of my brain. There was just one piece of good luck in...