The Annotated Walden: Walden; Or Life in the Woods, Together with "Civil Disobedience", a detailed Chronology and Various Pieces about its Author, the Writing and Publishing of the Book

502 pp. 10 1/2 x 8 3/4. Edited with an introduction, notes, and bibliography by Philip Van Doren Stern, and illustrated with maps, portraits, photographs, manuscript pages, drawings, and decorations. Includes Walden; Civil Disobedience, and a detailed chronology and various pieces about the author, the writing and publishing of the book. "Walden (first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is an American book written by noted Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, and manual for self reliance."