Henry Thoreau: 257 books

A compelling travel narrative and a meditation on loss, time, and history, A Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers was written three years after the death of Thoreau’s brother, John, with whom he made the 1839 river voyage. This account of their journey shares many themes with Thoreau’s classic Walden, exploring self-renewal in nature, spirituality, culture, politics, and religion.

These nine essays, among Thoreau’s most popular writings, grew out of his daily saunters around Concord, Massachusetts. Published only after his death, these early works document Thoreau’s developing eye for natural description. Includes “Walking,” “A Natural History of Massachusetts,” “A...

This brilliant account of Thoreau’s four trips to Cape Cod is often still considered the best book ever written about the area. Chronicling a fatal shipwreck, encounters with the ocean, explorations, and settlement, as well as Thoreau’s reflections on the pilgrims’ landing, Cape Cod has become known as the nautical Walden.

Se Thoreau (1817-1862) é o pai do anarquismo, esse seu pequeno e fulgurante ensaio é o livro do Gênesis. Quando estava na prisăo, depois de discordar do pagamento de impostos, Thoreau redigiu este texto ardente, incontido, ferino e definitivo. "A Desobediência civil" é a Bíblia dos...

Esta edición, hermosamente ilustrada por Juanma Pérez, recoge por vez primera en castellano todos los poemas de Thoreau, gran conocedor de la tradición poética clásica e inglesa. Los poemas son el registro de sus pensamientos más nobles y una prueba de aquella escritura deliberada y reservada...

Life without Principle se llamó originalmente What Shall it Profit, y fue una conferencia dictada por Thoreau el 6 de diciembre de 1854 en el Hall del Ferrocarril de Rhode Island. Posteriormente, dictó la conferencia cuatro veces más en Massachusetts durante 1855, y una vez más en Nueva Jersey...

Del grupo de notables que a mediados del siglo pasado tuvieron su hogar en la pequeña población de Concord, en Massachusetts, otorgándole con ello una fama literaria a la vez especial y duradera, Thoreau es el único nacido allí. Su vecino Emerson había buscado aquel sitio en su madurez como...

Los bosques de Maine es uno de los relatos más tempranos y detallados del proceso de cambio en el Hinterland americano. Thoreau hace gala de una inmensa destreza al escribir sobre la naturaleza a través de su capacidad de observación y su compromiso de vivir conforme a ella. En este libro se aprecia...

The Letters of Thoreau, though not less remarkable in some aspects than what he wrote carefully for publication, have thus far scarcely had justice done them. The selection made for a small volume in 1865 was designedly done to exhibit one phase of his character,—the most striking, if you will,...

Together in one volume, Emerson's Nature and Thoreau's Walking, is writing that defines our distinctly American relationship to nature.

People have been fascinated by cats for centuries. From the ancient Egyptians, all the way down to today's cat lovers throughout the world, cats have held a special place in people's lives. Cats are unique creatures. It shouldn't be surprising that they have captured the imaginations of many of the...

Die Sklavereikrise entzündete New England in den 1840er und 1850er Jahren. Die Umgebung wurde nach dem Flüchtigen Sklavengesetz von 1850 besonders angespannt. Thoreau, ein lebenslanger Abolitionist, hielt eine leidenschaftliche Rede, die 1848, wenige Monate nachdem er Walden Pond verlassen hatte,...

Erstmals auf Deutsch: Thoreaus meisterliche Reiseerzählung Zahlreiche Reisen führten H. D. Thoreau ab 1849 auf die Halbinsel Kap Cod in Massachusetts.Seine Aufzeichnungen zu Land und Leuten, Tieren und Pflanzen, zur Landschaft und ihrer herben Schönheit bilden die Grundlage für das posthum erschienene...

This collection of essays, published in 1866, features not only Thoreau's whimsical account of his 1850 trip to Canada but one of his most famous and influential essays, "Civil Disobedience," as well as "A Plea for Captain John Brown" and "Slavery in Massachusetts."