David Thoreau: 247 books

In Walking, Henry David Thoreau talks about the importance of nature to mankind, and how people cannot survive without nature, physically, mentally, and spiritually, yet we seem to be spending more and more time entrenched by society. For Thoreau walking is a self-reflective spiritual act that occurs...

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 a house on Walden Pond in 1845, he helped shape our notions of the individual, subsistence,...

This carefully crafted ebook: "Civil Disobedience & Other Essays - Premium Collection: 26 Political, Philosophical & Historical Essays" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Introduction: Thoreau by Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: Civil Disobedience...

When some twenty years ago there were sent to me from the portfolios of Emerson papers by different friends of ours, I found among them an essay of twenty-two full manuscript pages, in the familiar script of Thoreau, tied together with knots of faded pink ribbon, like his College Commencement "part,"...

In 1846, Henry David Thoreau refused to pay his poll taxes, so he was arrested and imprisoned. This formed the basis for his essay "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" (first published as "Resistance to Civil Government"), where he argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or...

Walking, or sometimes referred to as "The Wild", is a lecture by Henry David Thoreau first delivered at the Concord Lyceum on April 23, 1851. He considered it one of his seminal works, so much so, that he once wrote of the lecture, "I regard this as a sort of introduction to all that...

In Walking, Henry David Thoreau talks about the importance of nature to mankind, and how people cannot survive without nature, physically, mentally, and spiritually, yet we seem to be spending more and more time entrenched by society. For Thoreau walking is a self-reflective spiritual act that occurs...

Resistance to Civil Government (Civil Disobedience) is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing...

Wie soll und will ich leben? - Thoreau sucht eine Antwort auf diese Frage und zieht sich in eine Blockhütte am Walden-See zurück. >Walden< ist das Buch dieses Experiments. Es bietet Wege zur Entschleunigung für alle, die sich nach Ruhe, Gelassenheit und bewusstem Nichtstun sehnen. Henry...

Henry David Thoreau (12.7.1817 - 6.5.1862) war ein amerikanischer Philosoph und Schriftsteller. Thoreau gilt heute als eine der markantesten Gestalten der klassischen amerikanischen Literatur. In seinem 1854 veröffentlichten Werk „Walden. Oder das Leben in den Wäldern“ beschrieb Thoreau seine Zeit in der Natur, er integriert in dem Buch aber auch Themen wie Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft.

Cette version du livre contient une table des matières active ( HTML ), ce qui rendra votre lecture plus simple et plus agréable. La Désobéissance civile, titre original Civil Disobedience est un essai de Henry David Thoreau publié en 1849. H.D. Thoreau écrit sur le thème de la désobéissance...

Een tijdloze klassieker over natuur en bezinning met een voorwoord van Paolo Cognetti In 1845 trok Henry David Thoreau de natuur in. Twee jaar lang verbleef hij in een huisje aan de oever van Walden Pond om te lezen, na te denken en te schrijven. Het resultaat was een tekst die een van de grote...

Based on an 1839 boat trip Thoreau took with his brother from Concord, Massachusetts, to Concord, New Hampshire, and back, this classic of American literature is not only a vivid narrative of that journey, it is also a collection of thought-provoking observations on such diverse topics as poetry,...

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862). Ensayista, topógrafo, disidente nato y maestro de la prosa, su auténtico empleo fue, según él se ocupó de recordar, «inspector de ventiscas y diluvios». Su nombre ha llegado a nuestros días ligado a dos libros capitales para el pensamiento individualista y...