Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, and naturalist, best known for his book Walden, which reflects on simple living in nature, and his essay 'Civil Disobedience,' advocating resistance to unjust government. A key figure in Transcendentalism and mentored by Ralph Waldo Emerson, he lived two years at Walden Pond, worked as a surveyor and abolitionist involved in the Underground Railroad, and filled journals with observations of Concord's flora and fauna. His ideas influenced figures like Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
Transcendentalism
Essay
Nature writing
Philosophy
In Wildness is the Preservation of the World
Autumnal Tints (Playaway Young Adult)
Natural History Essays
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Walden
Walden
Walden
Walden
Walden
Walden
Walking
Walden and Civil Disobedience (Penguin American Library)
The Maine Woods
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (An American Litary Classic)
The Portable Thoreau
Walden; Or, Life in the Woods (Dover Thrift Editions)
The Maine Woods
Walden: or, Life in the Woods
Autumnal Tints
The Essays of Henry David Thoreau
WALDEN, and ON THE DUTY OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE (ILLUSTRATED)
WALDEN, and ON THE DUTY OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE (ILLUSTRATED)
In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World
Civil Disobedience