Title
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
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