Henry David Thoreau
Biographic Data
| ID | 489139 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Henry David Thoreau |
| GIVEN NAMES | Henry David |
| FAMILY NAME | Thoreau |
| SIGNATURE | THOREAU H D |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1854 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
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Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Thoreau's Animals: From Estridentismo to ¡30†“30!
The Maine Woods: A Fully Annotated Edition
On the 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine” thus begins The Maine Woods , the evocative story of Thoreau’s journeys through a familiar yet untouched land. As he explores Mt. Katahdin (an Indian word meaning highest land”), Lake Chesuncook, the Allagash River, and the East Branch of the Penobscot, Thoreau muses on his own vulnerability and the humility engendered by his solitude in the wilder…
Thoreau's Animals: From Estridentismo To ¡30-30!
Walden: 150Th Anniversary Edition
The Illustrated Walden with Photographs from the Gleason Collection
This illustrated edition of Walden features 66 photographs by Herbert W. Gleason, one of great American landscape photographers of nineteenth and early twentieth century. Gleason, who had a special love for what he called the simple beauty of New England, became interested in Thoreau's work when commissioned in 1906 by Houghton Mifflin Company to illustrate their edition of The Writings of Henry David Thoreau. With help of few surviving people wh…
Essays: A Fully Annotated Edition
Civil Disobedience
Cape Cod
Walden - Coleção L&PM Pocket
Classique: Cultiver ses haricots
Maine Woods: A Fully Annotated Edition
Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition
Walden and Civil Disobedience (Barnes & Noble Classics)
Wild Apples and Other Natural History Essays
This volume of seven essays and a late lecture by Henry David Thoreau makes available important material written both before and after Walden. First appearing in the 1840s, through to the 1860s, the essays were written during a time of great change in Thoreau's environs, as the Massachusetts of his childhood became increasingly urbanized and industrialized. Rossi's introduction puts the essays in the context of Thoreau's other major works, both c…
Political writings: Political Writings
Thoreau's political writing is intensely personal and direct. Both his life and work focus uncompromisingly on the question 'how should I live?', and for Thoreau, no element of day-to-day existence is left untouched by moral and political issues. This 1996 edition of Thoreau's political essays includes 'Civil Disobedience', selections from Walden, 'Life Without Principle', and the anti-slavery addresses, such as 'Slavery in Massachusetts'. In her…
Faith in a Seed: The Dispersion of Seeds and Other Late Natural History Writings
in a contains the hitherto unpublished work Dispersion of one of Henry D. Thoreau's last important research and writing projects, and now his first new book to appear in 125 years.With the remarkable clarity and grace that characterize all of his writings, Thoreau describes the ecological succession of plant species through seed dispersal. The Dispersion of Seeds, which draws on Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection, refutes the then widel…
Faith in a Seed: The Dispersion Of Seeds And Other Late Natural History Writings
"Henry D. Thoreau and Horace Greeley Exchange Letters on the "Spontaneous Generation of Plants
Bradley P. Dean, Henry D. Thoreau, Horace Greeley, Henry D. Thoreau and Horace Greeley Exchange Letters on the "Spontaneous Generation of Plants", The New England Quarterly, Vol. 66, No. 4 (Dec., 1993), pp. 630-638
On the Classics
"Conflict of Laws": A Lost Essay by Henry Thoreau
The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"
This book offers a selection of superb photographs by the famous turn-of-the-century photographer Herbert Gleason. Retracing one of Thoreau's early journeys, Gleason produced moving and dramatic pictures of life along the rivers of New England. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton Univ…
Writing Nature: "Henry Thoreau's "Journal
A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers ; Walden, or, Life in the woods ; The Maine woods ; Cape Cod
Henry David Thoreau wrote four full-length works, collected here in a single volume. Interweaving natural observation, personal experience, and historical lore, they reveal his brilliance not only as a writer, but as a naturalist, scholar, historian, poet, and philosopher. "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" is based on a boat trip taken with his brother from Concord, Massachusetts to Concord, New Hampshire. "Walden" is at once a persona…
Walden; or, Life in the woods
Walden is an autobiographical work focusing on Henry David Thoreau's time in the woods near Concord, Massachusetts. As the purpose of this pilgrimage, Thoreau said "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." Suggested Level: US (Upper Secondary)
Thoreau, Philosopher of Freedom: Writings on Liberty
Henry David Thoreau: Representative Selections, with Introduction, Bibliography, and Notes
The Works of Thoreau
Collected Poems of Henry Thoreau
Thoreau's Last Letter
Politics Laboratory—1952
I mean that they should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? ... If I wished a boy to know something about the arts and sciences, for instance, I would not pursue the common course, which is merely to send him into the neighborhood of some professor, where anyth…
Thoreau
"The Diary of Thoreau's "Gentle Boy
Emerson was then thirty-five, Thoreau just turned twentytwo, and two years out of Harvard. While Emerson was Concord's celebrity, Henry was but a promising essayist. Walden was still fifteen years in the future. The poem by Thoreau which Emerson read on that August evening had been written five weeks earlier, and the subject was a boy of eleven, Edmund Quincy Sewall. With his mother, Edmund had been visiting the Thoreau household. The poem opens
The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau
The Shores of America: Thoreau's Inward Exploration
Three Unpublished Thoreau Letters
Climate and society: A review of the literature
In many of the regions for which we have library data... the seasonal peak of intellectual [library] activity is superimposed upon the low level of health which normally prevails at the end of a cool or cold winter. Thus a state of strain is presumably produced because an im-pulse toward vigorous mental effort is opposed by a contradictory impulse toward physical re-laxation. It is this contradiction, apparently, which so often causes February an…
The Variorum Walden
Über die Pflicht zum Ungehorsam gegen den Staat: Und andere Essays
The Illustrated Walden
Thoreau: The Complete Individualist
Frightfully Thoreau
A Riddle worth the Reading: Thoreau's Works and Days
A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers ; Walden, or, Life in the woods ; The Maine woods ; Cape Cod
Henry David Thoreau wrote four full-length works, collected here in a single volume. Interweaving natural observation, personal experience, and historical lore, they reveal his brilliance not only as a writer, but as a naturalist, scholar, historian, poet, and philosopher. "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" is based on a boat trip taken with his brother from Concord, Massachusetts to Concord, New Hampshire. "Walden" is at once a persona…
The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"
This book offers a selection of superb photographs by the famous turn-of-the-century photographer Herbert Gleason. Retracing one of Thoreau's early journeys, Gleason produced moving and dramatic pictures of life along the rivers of New England. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton Univ…
Writing Nature: "Henry Thoreau's "Journal
"Conflict of Laws": A Lost Essay by Henry Thoreau
On the Classics
Faith in a Seed: The Dispersion Of Seeds And Other Late Natural History Writings
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