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) (transcription project)
• Excursions (1863), anthology containing nine essays and a biographical sketch (transcription project)
• A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849) (transcription project)
• Early Spring in Massachusetts: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau (1881) (transcription project)
• Sir Walter Raleigh (transcription project)

INDIVIDUAL VOLUMES

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

WORKS ABOUT

• "Thoreau's Flute", an elegy by Louisa May Alcott [Sep 1863] (1950) (external scan)

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 (external scan)

  Volume 2: Walden (transcription project)

  Volume 3: The Maine Woods (external scan)

  Volume 4: Cape Cod and Miscellanies (external scan)

  Volume 5: Excursions and Poems [with Translations] (transcription project)

  Volume 6: Familiar Letters [expanded] (transcription project)

  Volume 7: Journal Volume 1 (1837-1846) (transcription project)

  Volume 8: Journal Volume 2 (1850-September 15, 1851) (transcription project)

  Volume 9: Journal Volume 3 (September 16, 1851-April 30, 1852) (external scan)

  Volume 10: Journal Volume 4 (May 1, 1852-February 27, 1853) (external scan) (index checked)

  Volume 11: Journal Volume 5 (March 5, 1853-November 30, 1853) (external scan)

  Volume 12: Journal Volume 6 (December 1, 1853-August 31, 1854) (external scan)

  Volume 13: Journal Volume 7 (September 1, 1854-October 30, 1855) (external scan)

  Volume 14: Journal Volume 8 (November 1, 1855-August 15, 1856) (external scan)

  Volume 15: Journal Volume 9 (August 16, 1856-August 7, 1857) (external scan)

  Volume 16: Journal Volume 10 (August 8, 1857-June 29, 1858) (external scan)

  Volume 17: Journal Volume 11 (July 2, 1858-February 28, 1859) (external scan)

  Volume 18: Journal Volume 12 (March 2, 1859-November 30, 1859) (external scan)

  Volume 19: Journal Volume 13 (December 1, 1859-July 31, 1860) (external scan)

  Volume 20: Journal Volume 14 (August 1, 1860-November 3, 1861) (external scan)

END MATTER ONLY

• Cape Cod (1865) (transcription project)

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 [1]
• 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)