Henry David Thoreau: 245 books

La Désobéissance civile, titre original Civil Disobedience (traduit par Désobéir) est un essai de Henry David Thoreau publié en 1849. H.D. Thoreau écrit sur le thème de la désobéissance civile, en se fondant sur son expérience personnelle. En juillet 1846, Thoreau fut emprisonné, n'ayant...

Bilingual edition. First italian edition. Per quanto ingiusto possa sembrare, non vi è eroe senza il suo cantore. Non possiamo sapere cosa sarebbe stato della vicenda di John Brown se non avesse trovato in Henry David Thoreau il suo più appassionato narratore. Per nostra fortuna abbiamo ancora...

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,...

1845 bezog der amerikanische Schriftsteller und Philosoph Henry David Thoreau eine selbst gebaute Hütte am Waldensee unweit seiner Heimatstadt Concord, wo er zwei Jahre lang von selbst angebautem Gemüse und Waldfrüchten lebte. Thoreau wollte damit für sich selbst den Nachweis führen, dass ein erfülltes...

Thoreau advocates for nonviolent protest in his classic manifesto Motivated by his disgust with the US government, Henry David Thoreau’s seminal philosophical essay enjoins individuals to stand against the ruling forces that seek to erase their free will. It is the duty of a good citizen,...

Contents The Ephemera: An Emblem Of Human Life  Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). The Whistle Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). Dialogue Between Franklin And The Gout Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). Consolation For The Old Bachelor Francis Hopkinson (1737-1791). John Bull Washington Irving (1783-1859)....

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...

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...