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Familiar Letters - The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 06 (of 20)
The fortune of Henry Thoreau as an author of books has been peculiar, and such as to indicate more permanence of his name and fame than could be predicted of many of his contemporaries. In the years of his literary activity (twenty-five in all), from 1837 to 1862,when he died, not quite forty-five years old,he published but two volumes, and those with much delay and difficulty in finding a publisher. But in the thirty-two years after his death, nine volumes were published from his manuscripts and fugitive pieces,the present being the tenth. Besides these, two biographies of Thoreau had appeared in America, and two others in England, with numerous reviews and sketches of the man and his writings,enough to make several volumes more. Since 1894 other biographies and other volumes have appeared, and now his writings in twenty volumes are coming from the press. The sale of his books and the interest in his life are greater than ever; and he seems to have grown early into an American classic, like his Concord neighbors, Emerson and Hawthorne. Pilgrimages are made to his grave and his daily haunts, as to theirs,and those who come find it to be true, as was said by an accomplished woman (Miss Elizabeth Hoar) soon after his death, that "Concord is Henry's monument, adorned with suitable inscriptions by his own hand." x When Horace wrote of a noble Roman family, he pointed in felicitous phrase to the only fame that posterity has much regarded,the slow-growing, deep-rooted laurel of renown. And Shakespeare, citing the old English rhyming saw, ......Buy Now (To Read More)
Ebook Number: 43523
Author: Thoreau, Henry David
Release Date: Aug 20, 2013
Format: eBook
Language: English
Editor: Sanborn, F. B. (Franklin Benjamin), 1831-1917
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