Henry David Thoreau: 245 books

Life Without Principle is an essay by Henry David Thoreau that offers his program for a righteous livelihood. It was published in 1863.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American philosopher and naturalist best known for writing Walden and Civil Disobedience. This version of Thoreaus Life Without Principle includes a table of contents.

Henry David Thoreau made three trips to the rugged and mostly unexplored Maine woods, where one “might live and die and never hear of the United States.” He climbed mountains, canoed, and recorded his acute observations on the wildlife, weather, terrain, and the nature of the people he met along the way, eloquently capturing the wilder side of America.

Établissement de l'édition et traduction de l'anglais (États-unis) par Thierry Gillyboeuf Anthologie originale Henry David Thoreau (1812-1862) voulait « vivre profondément et sucer toute la moelle de la vie ». Sa vie et son oeuvre sont une école de philosophie et de spiritualité. L'auteur...

Henry David Thoreau ne s’est jamais contenté d’admirer la Nature. Depuis sa retraite au milieu des bois, à Walden en 1845, jusqu’à ses longues promenades dans les forêts de la Nouvelle-Angleterre, il n’a eu de cesse de la parcourir. Jour après jour, il a scrupuleusement consigné dans...

« Avec quelle rudesse et quelle brutalité traitons-nous la nature ! Ne pourrions-nous pas la travailler avec moins de négligence ? Après tout, n'est-ce pas ce que suggèrent toutes ces belles inventions — le magnétisme, le daguerréotype ou l'électricité? Ne pouvons-nous faire plus que couper...

Alors que les États-Unis ne sont encore qu'une toute jeune nation, les affrontements entre partisans et adversaires de l'esclavage, prémices de la Guerre civile américaine, font rage. À la tête d'une poignée d'hommes, parmi lesquels ses propres fils, John Brown (1800-1859) multiplie les raids...

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American philosopher and naturalist best known for writing Walden and Civil Disobedience. This version of Thoreaus Slavery in Massachusetts includes a table of contents.

10 masterpieces of literature Vol 1 brings together 10 classics of literature, to be discovered, or to be rediscovered. Equipped with a dynamic table of contents, you would not get lost and could resume reading where you left off. Content: -The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe -A Midsummer Night's Dream...

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 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 A...

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 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...

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...