A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

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A sentence should read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.

Henry David Thoreau

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Topic

Good writing Writing

Author

Henry David Thoreau

Source

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Genre

Travel writing

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1849 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Thoreau, Henry David. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Boston/Cambridge: James Munroe and Co., 1849.

Current Citation

Thoreau, Henry David. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, edited by Carl F. Hovde and William L. Howarth, and Elizabeth Hall Witherell. Princeton University Press, 2004.