Henry David Thoreau: 245 books

"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.

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,...

**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...

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...

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.

Henry D. Thoreaus Hauptwerk ist nicht Walden oder Über den zivilen Ungehorsam, sondern sein Tagebuch, das er als 20-Jähriger begann und bis wenige Tage vor seinem Tod 1861 führte. Darin notierte er Beobachtungen, die zu den bedeutendsten Naturschilderungen der Weltliteratur zählen, aber auch Gedanken...

«Una lontana betulla bianca, ritta su una collina contro il cielo bianco e brumoso, sembra, con i suoi ramoscelli sottili, così distinti e neri, un millepiedi che si arrampichi in paradiso.» Righe come queste, tratte dal suo Diario, riassumono la visione filosofica e naturalistica di Henry Thoreau...

«Le leggi ingiuste esistono: dobbiamo accontentarci di obbedire o dobbiamo sforzarci di correggerle?» La disobbedienza civile, il più noto tra gli scritti di Henry Thoreau, sancì l’affermazione della lotta non violenta come forma di opposizione al potere. Pubblicato nel 1849, suscitò...

In 1854, Thoreau published the book by which he will always be best known, Walden, or Life in the Woods. It is by far the deepest, richest, and most closely jointed of his books. It shows Thoreau at his best, and contains all that he had to say to the world. In fact, he is a man of one book, and that...

Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was a champion of individualism and a critic of the countervailing pressures of society. He was also the mentor of Thoreau. Considered by many readers as the father of...