The Third Edition generously includes excerpts from Thoreau's journal, reprinted with special arrangements from Princeton University Press from the definitive edition of his writings. These selections, spanning from 1845 to 1854, vividly depict Thoreau's intensive exploration of the landscape, the synthesis of literature and natural history that informs his works "Walden," "Walking," and "Wild Apples," as well as the development of his environmental imagination.

The section "Reviews and Posthumous Assessments" for this edition gathers eight new critiques of Thoreau's antislavery and later environmental essays, as well as "Walden." To the influential portraits of Thoreau by Ralph Waldo Emerson and James Russell Lowell, the Third Edition adds John Burroughs' "Another Word on Thoreau," his response to them and to his great predecessor.

The section "Contemporary Criticism" includes eighteen selections from the best historical, political, philosophical, postmodernist, and environmental criticism of Thoreau's writing from the mid-20th century. To the classic pieces by E. B. White, Leo Marx, Barbara Johnson, and Stanley Cavell, the Third Edition adds essays from nine new contributors, including Lawrence Buell, Laura Dassow Walls, Evan Carton, Robert A. Gross, Albert J. von Frank, Steven Fink, and William Rossi.

A Chronology of Thoreau's life and work, new to the Third Edition, as well as an expanded and updated Selected Bibliography are also included.

Pages: 688, Year of Publication: 0108, Dimensions: 13x13cm