Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition Thoreau This is the authoritative edition of an American literary classic: Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, an elegantly written record of his experiment in simple living. With this edition, Thoreau scholar Jeffrey S. Cramer has meticulously corrected errors and omissions from previous editions of Walden and provided illuminating notes on the biographical, historical, and geographical contexts of the great nineteenth-century writer and thinker’s life. Publisher: Yale University Press; Annotated Edition (July 11, 2004) Release Date: July 11, 2004 Language: English Hardcover: 400 pages Thank you for looking.