EPISODE · Apr 29, 2026 · 59 MIN
H. D. Thoreau, The Maine Woods, "Chesuncook," §5; Sarah Orne Jewett, A Country Doctor, ch. 13
from The Reading Hour
Episode 25's substantial reading from Thoreau's "Chesuncook" includes some of the most moving prose of the essay as Thoreau moralizes about hunting and poetry; he also expresses Transcendentalist enthusiasm for "the living spirit of the [pine] tree." The episode concludes with Jewett's thirteenth chapter of A Country Doctor, "A Straight Course."
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