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A Novel Journal: Walden (Compact) by Henry David Thoreau
Category: Journals | Series: Novel Journals
An American classic that encourages writers to live by the adage, "No man ever followed his genius till it misled him." Oft-quoted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau is perhaps best known for his book Walden. First published in 1854, Walden documents the time Thoreau spent living in a hand-built cabi ...Show more
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau
Category: Travel | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Which in different places are part absorbed by the earth, Part reach the sea, and being received within the plain Of its freer waters, beat the shore for banks. page] CONCORD RIVER. "Beneath low hills, in the broad interval Through which at will our Indian rivulet Winds mindful still of sannup and of sq ...Show more
Canoeing in the Wilderness by Henry David Thoreau
Category: Nature
Essayist, poet, and philosopher Henry David Thoreau (1817-62) ranks among America's foremost nature writers. The Concord, Massachusetts, native spent most of his life observing the natural world of New England. His thoughts on leading a simple, independent life remain a foundation of modern environmenta ...Show more
Cape Cod by Henry David Thoreau
Category: Travel
Thoreau's classic account of his meditative, beach-combing walking trips to Cape Cod in the early 1850s, reflecting on the elemental forces of the sea, with an introduction by Paul Theroux Cape Cod chronicles Henry David Thoreau's journey of discovery along this evocative stretch of Massachusetts coast ...Show more
Essays by Henry David Thoreau
Category: Culture
This new selection of Thoreau's essays traces his trajectory as a writer for the outlets of his day - the periodical press, newspapers, and compendiums - and as a frequent presenter on the local lecture circuit. By arranging the writings chronologically, the volume recreates the experience of Thoreau's ...Show more
Excursions by HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Anthem Travel Classics Ser.
A selection of ruminative nature writing on walking and the beauty of New England, here Thoreau's characteristically wide-ranging and philosophical style offers a multitude of fascinating observations. Excursions presents Thoreau's most studied and expansive collection of writing on the natural world. A ...Show more
Henry David Thoreau: The Journal - 1837 - 1861 by THOREAU HENRY DAVID
Category: Biography
The largest one-volume edition of Thoreau's 25-year journal, with "some of the most vigorous and original prose in English" and insights into the origins of Walden and other works (Washington Post). Henry David Thoreau's Journal was his life's work: the daily practice of writing that accompanied his da ...Show more
Henry David Thoreau: a Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Walden, the Maine Woods, Cape Cod (LOA #28) by Henry David Thoreau
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Library of America Henry David Thoreau Edition Ser.
This Library of America edition collects for the first time in one volume the four full-length works in which Henry David Thoreau combined his poetic sensibility, classical learning, philosophical austerity, and Yankee love of practical detail into literary masterpieces on humanity's communion with natu ...Show more
October, or Autumnal Tints by Henry David Thoreau
Category: Fiction
Originally delivered as a lecture shortly before the writer s own death, Henry David Thoreau s classic Autumnal Tints is an ode to autumn not as the season of death and decay, but of ripeness, fullness, and maturity. It is perhaps the best piece ever written on the subject of the fall color of the chang ...Show more
Selections From the Journals by Thoreau Henry David
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Noted Thoreau scholar offers rich selection of favorite excerpts from voluminous Journals. Masterly meditations on man, society, nature and many other subjects -- expressed with verve and vigor in some of the most poetic prose in American literature. Perfect introduction to the great naturalist and his ...Show more
The Illustrated Walden: Or, Life in the Woods by THOREAU, HENRY DAVID
Category: Classic Fiction
A beautiful illustrated edition of Thoreau's classic treatise on man and nature."Our life is frittered away by detail. . . . Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!"Henry David Thoreau built his small cabin on the shore of Walden Pond in 1845. For the next two years, he lived there as simply as possible, le ...Show more
The Maine Woods by Henry David Thoreau
Category: Travel
"What a wilderness walk for a man to take alone!...Here was traveling of the old heroic kind over the unaltered face of nature." Henry David Thoreau Over a period of three years, Thoreau made three trips to the largely unexplored woods of Maine. He climbed mountains, paddled a canoe by moonlight, and di ...Show more