   
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) & Richard
Steele (1672-1729)
The Joseph Addison
Page
Joseph Addison Quotes
Joseph
Addison, "Taste" in The Spectator (No. 409)
The Spectator
Francis Bacon
(1561-1626)
Aphorisms
The Essays
(Renascence Editions)
The Essays
of Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon: Life and
Works
Novum Organum
"Of Deformity" *
"Of Marriage and the Single
Life" *
"Of Studies" *
sirbacon.org (includes a "Baconian Slideshow")
The
New Atlantis (Univ. of Virginia Library)
Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)
Text and Image Archive
Annie Dillard
(b. 1945)
"EarthSaint: Annie
Dillard" (by Cheryl Lander)
"The Mysticism of Annie Dillard's Pilgrim
at Tinker Creek" (by Sandra Stahlman Elliott)
Frederick Douglass
(1817-1895)
"My Escape from Slavery"
*
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849)
biographical sketch
CASTLE
RACKRENT: AN HIBERNIAN TALE TAKEN FROM FACTS, AND FROM THE MANNERS OF THE IRISH SQUIRES,
BEFORE THE YEAR 1782 (complete)
"Imprisonment in
Castle Rackrent: A Gothic Convention Reflecting
Eighteenth Century Women's Reality," by K. D. Wixson
Loren Eiseley (1907-1977)
"The Brown
Wasps"
William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
Essays
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
Boswell's Life
of Johnson
The History of
Rasselas,Prince of Abissinia
"London"
Prayers and
Meditations
Samuel Johnson Page, by
Jack Lynch
The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page
The Vanity of Human
Wishes
Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
Charles Lamb Page
Charles Lamb Society
"The Old Familiar Faces"
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken, by Walter Lippman
(11 Dec. 1926)
H. L. Mencken Quotes
Henry Louis Mencken
Quotes from H. L. Mencken
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
"On
Cannibals"
"Of
Thumbs"*
George Orwell (1903-1950)
Charles' Orwell Links
George Orwell
Political Writings of George Orwell
Plutarch (AD c.50-c.125)
Biography
of Plutarch
Ploutarchos: Website of the
International Plutarch Society
Seneca the Younger (c. BC 4-AD 65)
Links
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
A
Child's Garden of Verses
"Henry David
Thoreau: His Character and Opinions"* by RLS
Jekyll and Hyde
Page
"On
Some Technical Elements of Style in Literature" by RLS
Robert
Louis Stevenson: A Record, an Estimate, a
Memorial, by Alexander H. Japp
The Robert Louis Stevenson Club
The Robert Louis
Stevenson Online Exhibit
The Robert Louis Stevenson Web Site
The Strange
Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Treasure
Island
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Article on The Main
Woods, by David Rothenberg
Back to Walden
Pond Campfire Chat
Background behind Walden*
Biographical essay by Ralph Waldo
Emerson*
A Brief Introduction to Thoreau*
Cape Cod (1865)
"Civil Disobedience"
(1849)
Concordances: Henry David Thoreau
The Electric Thoreau (links)
The Electronic Drummer
Frequently Asked Questions*
From the Journals of Henry David
Thoreau
Heath
Instructor's Guide for Teaching Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau, by
Donna Reinert
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
"Henry David Thoreau: His
Character and Opinions"* by RLS
Henry David Thoreau Pages
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Henry David Thoreau: Writer/Peacenik
Hotlist on Thoreau
and Walden
Images of Thoreau
The Life and Times,
by Harriet Hall Witherell
The Maine Woods (1864)
Mystery at Walden Pond, by Ken
Reeves
New England Transcendentalism
On Walden
A Personal Introduction to Walden
*
"A Plea for Captain John
Brown"
Poems by Thoreau
"Reflections on Walden"
Replica of Thoreau's Cabin
Selected Bibliography
Site of Thoreau's Cabin
"Slavery
in Massachusetts" (1854)
"Thoreau as
Botanist," by Ray Angelo
Thoreau the Buddhist, by Rick
Fields
A Thoreau Checklist and
Twenty Questions
The Thoreau Institute
The Thoreau Page
The Thoreau Reader
The Thoreau Society
Thoreau's Cape Cod: An Interactive Tour
Thoreau's Grave
Thoreau's Maine Woods
Thoreau's Pencils
Thoreau's Walden Pond (images)
Thoreau's
Wild Fruits, a manuscript published fall 1999
The Transcendentalists
Virtual Tour: Thoreau, Walden,
and the Environment
Walden * (complete
text)
Walden *
(complete text)
Walden * (complete
text)
Walden and other
works * (downloadable as PDF files)
The Walden List
The Walden Mailing List
Walden Pond Exhibit
Walden: A Reading
Group/Discussion Guide *
The Walden Woods Project
What Thoreau Knew (Thoreau and
the Simplicity Movement)
Wild Fruits (1999)
Writings from Concord (annotated
bibliography)
Writings of Henry David
Thoreau
E. B. White, (1899-1985)
"The Door"
(short story)
E. B. White (includes bibliography)
"Once
More to the Lake"
"The Rider and the Writer in 'The
Ring of Time'"
Stuart Little (film,
release date 10 December 1999)
Tom Wolfe (b. 1931)
Bibliography
Interview
with Tom Wolfe (audio and video)
Interview with Tom Wolfe (Steve
Hammer, 1998)
Tom Wolfe (publisher's site)
Tom
Wolfe, Zeitgeist Czar
* Items followed by an asterisk are particular texts that were (or will
be) discussed and/or recommended in class.
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