Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau written by Joel Myerson and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion is a valuable resource for historical and contextual material, whether on Thoreau's early writings like A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, on the monumental Walden, or on his assorted journals and later books. It also serves in some ways as a biographical guide, offering new insights into his turbid publishing career, and his brief but extraordinarily original life.