To coincide with the bicentennial of Thoreau's birth and TarcherPerigee's publication of Expect
Great Things: The Life of Henry David Thoreau here is a sumptuous rediscovery edition of the
first illustrated volume of Thoreau's classic as originally issued in 1897. In 1897
thirty-five years after Thoreau's death Houghton Mifflin issued a two-volume Holiday Edition
of Walden illustrated with thirty remarkable engravings daguerreotypes and period
photographs. In 1902 the publisher collected the work into a single volume. Now to mark the
bicentennial of Thoreau's birth in 1817 this timeless landmark is reproduced with all of the
original illustrations and the complete text of his mystical practical magisterial record of
a life in the woods.
