Henry Thoreau: 257 books

Edited by Thoreau’s long-time associate Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, this is a 1905 compilation of the philosopher-poet’s early fragments, diaries, verse, drafts, and metaphysical musings on nature. Included are accounts of his 1839 trip with his brother along the Concord and Merrimac Rivers, as well as travels to Staten Island and his famous “Journey West,” to Minnesota.

• Fleck is a noted scholar of Thoreau and has presented at the Thoreau Institute. • Fascinating account of Thoreau’s only international travel experience to Quebec in 1850. • Unlike the many facsimile reproductions available, this edition features a modern design that enhances readability. • Part of the Literary Naturalist Series and features a new foreword.

"Thoreau's careful observations and devastating conclusions have rippled into time, becoming stronger as the weaknesses Thoreau noted have become more pronounced ... Events that seem to be completely unrelated to his stay at Walden Pond have been influenced by it, including the national park system,...

«Por lo general, no recordamos que, al fin y al cabo, siempre es la primera persona la que habla. No hablaría tanto de mí mismo si hubiera otra persona a quien conociera tan bien. Por desgracia, estoy limitado a este asunto por la pobreza de mi experiencia. Además, por mi parte, exijo de todo...

Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience" (originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government"), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state. Contents Walden On the Duty...

Nel suo diario degli anni 1835-1853 – American Notebooks –, Nathaniel Hawthorne racconta di aver pranzato con Thoreau il 1° settembre 1842, e così lo descrive: «Mt Thoreau è un osservatore della natura acuto e sensibile, un osservatore autentico… e la Natura, per contraccambiare il suo amore,...

From 1837 to 1861, Henry D. Thoreau kept a Journal that would become the principal imaginative work of his career. The source of much of his published writing, the Journal is also a record of his interior life and of his monumental studies of the natural history of his native Concord, Massachusetts.

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Observations of nature in New England, first published in 1857. According to Wikipedia: "Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist.[1] He is...

Walden is a book by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau and a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings - a part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self-reliance.

I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil—to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society. I wish to make an extreme statement, if so I may make an emphatic one, for...

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 in the simple things we often take for granted, Henry David Thoreau. His thoughts on reading...

Henry David Thoreau realizó un viaje a Canadá del 25 de septiembre al 2 de octubre de 1850. Su relato sobre este viaje apareció publicado inicialmente por entregas en 1853 en la revista Putnam’s Monthly bajo el título «Una excursión a Canadá», y en 1866 fue recogido en un libro titulado...

Em julho de 1845, desgostoso com o crescente comercialismo e industrialismo da sociedade americana, Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) deixou Conrad, Massachusetts, sua cidade natal, para instalar-se à beira do Lago Walden. Publicado primeiramente em 1854 com o título "Walden ou A vida nos bosques",...