Henry David Thoreau

Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)

by Henry David Thoreau

With their call for "simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!”, for self-honesty, and for harmony with nature, the writings of Henry David Thoreau are perhaps the most influential philosophical works in all American...

On Reading: From "Walden"

by Henry David Thoreau & J. Lyndon Shanley

As the digital age settles on us and the ebook revolution dawns, the question of why we read to begin with is often forgotten. Who better to turn to for guidance on this question than the man who sought refuge...

A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851

by Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau's journal of 1851 reveals profound ideas and observations in the making, including wonderful writing on the natural history of Concord.

Cape Cod

by Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau's classic account of his meditative, beach-combing walking trips to Cape Cod in the early 1850s, reflecting on the elemental forces of the sea

Cape Cod chronicles Henry David Thoreau’s journey of discovery...

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

by Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau's account of his 1839 boat trip is a finely crafted tapestry of travel writing, essays, and lyrical poetry. Thoreau interweaves descriptions of natural phenomena, the rural landscape, and local characters...

The Portable Thoreau

by Henry David Thoreau

An updated edition of Thoreau's most widely read works.

Self-described as "a mystic, a transcendentalist, and a natural philosopher to boot," Henry David Thoreau dedicated his life to preserving his freedom...

The Maine Woods

by Henry David Thoreau

"What a wilderness walk for a man to take alone!...Here was traveling of the old heroic kind over the unaltered face of nature." Henry David Thoreau

Over a period of three years, Thoreau made three trips to...

The Essential Thoreau

by Henry David Thoreau

Collected here in this omnibus edition are Henry David Thoreau's most important works including A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers; The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau, including Civil Disobedience;...

The Green Thoreau: America's First Environmentalist on Technology, Possessions, Livelihood, and More

by Henry David Thoreau & Carol Spenard LaRusso

At turns passionate, funny, and profound, this collection serves as a compelling introduction - or vivid reminder - of why Thoreau is one of America's iconoclastic greats.

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

by Henry David Thoreau

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers is both a remembrance of an intensely spiritual moment in Henry David Thoreau's life and a memoriam to his older brother who accompanied him on the trip shortly before...

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

by Henry David Thoreau

Civil Disobedience argues that citizens should not permit their governments to overrule their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing their acquiescence to enable the government to make them...

Walden

by Henry David Thoreau

Walden is one of the best-known non-fiction books ever written by an American. It details Thoreau's sojourn in a cabin near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson. Walden...

The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau

by Henry David Thoreau & Lewis Hyde

Thoreau's major essays annotated and introduced by one of our most vital intellectuals.

With The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau, Lewis Hyde gathers thirteen of Thoreau's finest short prose works and, for the first...

Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education

by Henry David Thoreau

"It is only when we forget our learning that we begin to know," Thoreau wrote. Ideas about education permeate Thoreau's writing. Uncommon Learning brings those ideas together in a single volume for the first...

Cape Cod: Illustrated Edition of the American Classic

by Henry David Thoreau & Scot Miller

Originally published in 1865, Henry David Thoreau’s Cape Cod is a wonderfully written, surprisingly funny account of nineteenth-century life on the Cape well before it became a major tourist attraction. To...

Nature and Walking

by Ralph Waldo Emerson & Henry David Thoreau

Together in one volume, Emerson's Nature and Thoreau's Walking, is writing that defines our distinctly American relationship to nature.

Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)

by Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau's vision of personal freedom is indelibly etched on the American consciousness. 'We need the tonic of wildness,' Thoreau wrote in Walden, and by turning his back on town amenities to build...

The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861

by Henry David Thoreau, Damion Searls & John Stilgoe

Henry David Thoreau’s Journal was his life’s work: the daily practice of writing that accompanied his daily walks, the workshop where he developed his books and essays, and a project in its own right—one...