David Thoreau: 247 books

Life Without Principle by Henry David Thoreau "Life Without Principle is an essay by Henry David Thoreau that gives his program for right livelihood. -Don't cheat people by conspiring with them to protect their comfort zones. -Don't make religions and other such institutions the...

"Life without Principle" (posthumously published 1863) decries the way in which excessive devotion to business and money coarsens the fabric of society: in merely making a living, the meaning of life gets lost. Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author,...

Inedito in Italia, "Le tentazioni del paradiso" (1843) è uno scritto giovanile di Henry D. Thoreau che affronta, prendendolo “di petto”, il tema delle riforme sociali utopistiche in voga nel XIX secolo. Nello specifico Thoreau esamina la proposta-promessa di un Nuovo Eden tecnocratico...

“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...

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....

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...

Henry D. Thoreau traveled to the backwoods of Maine in 1846, 1853, and 1857. Originally published in 1864, and published now with a new introduction by Paul Theroux, this volume is a powerful telling of those journeys through a rugged and largely unspoiled land. It presents Thoreau's fullest account...

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...

Henry David Thoreau afirmou que "sob um governo que prende qualquer homem injustamente, o único lugar digno para um homem justo é também a prisão". Desobediência Civil é um texto inspirador e dotado de princípios de igualdade e fraternidade. Uns o consideram um texto anarquista, outros...

Civil Disobedience is an essay by Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. It argues that people should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that people have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice....

In his 1849 essay Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing the government to make them the agents of injustice. Mohandas Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) credited Thoreau's essay with being "the chief cause of the abolition of slavery in America." 

Philosopher, naturalist, poet and rugged individualist, Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) has inspired generations of readers to think for themselves, to follow the dictates of their own conscience and to make an art of their lives. This representative sampling of his thought includes five of his...

A Plea for Captain John Brown is an essay by Henry David Thoreau. It is based on a speech Thoreau first delivered to an audience at Concord, Massachusetts on October 30, 1859, two weeks after John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, and repeated several times before Brown's execution on December 2, 1859....

A Plea for Captain John Brown is an essay by Henry David Thoreau. It is based on a speech Thoreau first delivered to an audience at Concord, Massachusetts on October 30, 1859, two weeks after John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, and repeated several times before Brown's execution on December 2, 1859. It was later published as a part of Echoes of Harper's Ferry in 1860.