Henry Thoreau: 257 books
by Henry David Thoreau
Language: French
Release Date: May 14, 2003
Language: French
Release Date: May 14, 2003
« À quoi bon emprunter sans cesse le même vieux sentier ? Vous devez tracer des sentiers vers l’inconnu. Si je ne suis pas moi, qui le sera ? » Inspiré par Ralph Waldo Emerson et son Nature, Henry David Thoreau (1817-1906) quitte à vingt-huit ans sa ville natale pour aller vivre seul dans...
Résister
à la tentation du laissez-faire, au réformisme et à l'esprit commercial des temps modernes
Language: French
Release Date: October 26, 2011
Sous ce titre sont regroupés plusieurs essais inédits de Henry David Thoreau, moins connus que La Désobéissance civile, certes, mais qui viennent compléter et prolonger la théorie philosophique qu’il y développe. Thoreau, qui ne fut pas l’ermite dans les bois que la postérité voudrait...
by Henry David Thoreau
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 7, 2019
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 7, 2019
“Manuale” di protesta sociale pacifica
La fama di questo saggio è cresciuta soprattutto nel corso del ventesimo secolo: ignorato alla sua uscita, ha influenzato moltissimo personaggi del calibro di Gandhi e Martin Luther King. Il primo mise in pratica la disobbedienza civile su scala di massa...
World's Greatest Classics in One Volume
Les Misérables, Hamlet, Jane Eyre, Ulysses, Huck Finn, Walden, War and Peace, Art of War, Siddhartha, Faust, Don Quixote, Arabian Nights, Bushido…
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Les Misérables (Victor Hugo) The Call of the Wild (Jack London) Walden (Henry David Thoreau) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)...
The Wild, Wild West
Thrilling Tales by Famous Authors
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
A town that had a man for breakfast every morning.
That's how Tombstone, Arizona was described in the late-1800s, bolstering the myth that a corpse would be found cooling in the town's dusty streets each sunrise. The reality was quite different and much less violent, of course, but that hasn't...
by Henry David Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
To Emerson and other New England transcendentalists who knew him best, Thoreau often seemed prickly and antisocial. But in his writings he was (and is) a man anyone would treasure as a friend, sounding board, and spiritual advisor — a man who trafficked in that rarest of commodities, the truth....
by Henry David Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
THE fascination which the Orientals possessed for Thoreau is perfectly evident to the reader who skipped no pages in Walden and the Week. The sacred scriptures of the East held his attention through all his creative years, and their effect on his work is so patent that even those who have no eye for...
Cape Cod
Un luogo dell'anima americana
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Tra il 1849 e il 1855 Thoreau fece tre viaggi attraverso la penisola del Massachusetts e, come sempre, annotò ogni cosa nei suoi diari. Poi, per qualche anno, se ne andò in giro a raccontare luoghi e uomini di quell’esile lingua di sabbia in bilico sull’Atlantico che è Cape Cod, in una serie...
by Henry David Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2019
At the time Thoreau made this wilderness canoe trip he was forty years old. The record of the journey is the latter half of his The Maine Woods, which is perhaps the finest idyl of the forest ever written. It is particularly charming in its blending of meditative and poetic fancies with the minute...
Walden
Or Life in the Woods
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
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 was written with expressed seasonal divisions. Thoreau hoped to isolate himself from society...
by Henry David Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Begun in 1837 at the recommendation of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thoreau's Journal covers a period of 25 years until just before his death. The work provided much raw material for his books, and it remains a fascinating record of his thought as it developed over time. The complete Journal comprises 14...
Uncommon Learning
Thoreau on Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 1999
"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 time.
by Henry David Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1993
Thoreau's journal of 1851 reveals profound ideas and observations in the making, including wonderful writing on the natural history of Concord.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles,...
by Henry David Thoreau, H. Daniel Peck
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1998
**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 with digressions on literature and philosophy, the Native American and Puritian histories...