Wild apples

Related Titles

Series: Evergreen series

By

Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1923

Notes

"Wild apples was originally published in the Atlantic monthly, November 1862".

Title vignette.

Contents: The history of the apple-tree -- The wild apple -- The crab -- How the wild apple grows -- The fruit, and its flavor -- Their beauty -- The naming of them -- The last gleaning -- The 'frozen-thawed' apple

A meditation on apples begins with a short history of the apple tree, tracing its path from ancient Greece to America. Thoreau saw the apple as a perfect mirror of man and eloquently lamented where they both were heading.

Subjects

Apples , History

Call Number

SB363 .T55 1923x

Language

English

Identifiers

OCLC: 1809099