Essays: a fully annotated edition

Introduction: Thoreau and the periodic press? [Jeffrey S. Cramer]

Natural history of Massachusetts

A winter walk

A walk to Wachusett

Paradise (to be) regained

Wendell Phillips before Concord Lyceum

Thomas Carlyle and his works

Resistance to civil government [Civil disobedience]

Slavery in Massachusetts

John Brown Essays. A plea for Captain John Brown ; The last days of John Brown

An address on the succession of forest trees

Walking

Autumnal tints

Wild apples

Life without principle

Appendix. Excerpts from John Adolphus Etzler.