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Recipient of Umhoefer Prize 
for Achievement in Humanities 2011

The Quotable Thoreau

The most comprehensive and authoritative collection of Thoreau quotations ever assembled, gathering more than 2,000 memorable passages from this iconoclastic American author, social reformer, environmentalist, and self-reliant thinker: thematically arranged, fully indexed, richly illustrated, and thoroughly documented. Includes selections by Thoreau on his contemporaries and by his contemporaries on Thoreau, an appendix of misquotations and misattributions, and a section on how to pronounce Thoreau’s name.  

Now available from PenguinUSA

The Portable Thoreau

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Completely revised edition of the classic 1947 anthology includes: Introduction: “Standing Up to Live, Sitting Down to Write”; “Natural History of Massachusetts”; “A Winter Walk”; “Ktaadn” (from The Maine Woods) (excerpts); “Civil Disobedience”;  A Week on the Concord  and Merrimack Rivers (excerpts); The Journal: Selections from Thoreau’s Journal on the Art of Writing; Selected Poems; Walden (complete); Correspondence: Selections from Thoreau’s Letters to H.G.O. Blake; "The Shipwreck" & "The Wellfleet Oysterman" from Cape Cod; “The Last Days of John Brown”; “Walking”; “Life without Principle”; For Further Reading. 

Forthcoming

The Literary Way:
Selected Essays of Henry D. Thoreau:
A Fully Annotated Edition
(Yale University Press) Spring 2013

Recent interview

To listen to my recent interview on Wisconsin Pubic Radio's "To the Best of Our Knowledge" for the 150h anniversary of Thoreau's death, click the logo below.