Henry Thoreau: 257 books

Posthumously published in 1864, The Maine Woods depicts Henry David Thoreau’s experiences in the forests of Maine, and expands on the author’s transcendental theories on the relation of humanity to Nature. On Mount Katahdin, he faces a primal, untamed Nature. Katahdin is a place “not even scarred...

Inedito in Italia, "Le tentazioni del paradiso" (1843) è uno scritto giovanile di Henry D. Thoreau che affronta, prendendolo “di petto”, il tema delle riforme sociali utopistiche in voga nel XIX secolo. Nello specifico Thoreau esamina la proposta-promessa di un Nuovo Eden tecnocratico...

The classic works of Thoreau in one collection with active table of contents. Works include:On the Duty of Civil DisobedienceA Plea for Captain John BrownWaldenWalkingA Week on the Concord and Merrimack RiversWild Apples

First published in 1849, “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience” is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. Within it, he presents the argument that people should not allow governments to supplant their consciences, and that everyone has an important duty to avoid being pawns for...

Unterwegssein als Lebensmodell: Für Henry David Thoreau, den Autor von >Walden< und >Über die Pflicht zum Ungehorsam gegen den Staat<, stellt das tägliche Umherstreifen durch die Natur eine Art Überlebensstrategie dar, real wie auch übertragen - Spazieren als Versuch, das Unbehagen...

Henry David Thoreau in neuer Übesetzung »Der Wert dieser wilden Früchte liegt nicht in ihrem Besitz oder Verzehr, sondern in ihrem Anblick und der Freude, dieman an ihnen hat.« — Henry David Thoreau. Esther Kinsky hat aus den nach gelassenen Schriften einen Gang durch die Jahreszeiten zusammengestellt...

INEDIT Traduit de l'anglais (États-Unis) par Thierry Gillybœuf Henry David Thoreau naît le 12 juillet 1817 à Concord, dans le Massachussetts. Il est le troisième fils d’un fabricant de crayons, l’entreprise paternelle a des difficultés, mais la vie familiale est harmonieuse. Son oncle l'initie...

Published in 1895, this collection gives the reader an intimate glimpse into Thoreau’s epistolary reflections. His correspondents include his brother John, his sister Helen, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. The book also includes essays on Margaret Fuller, nature, morality, and love and chastity.

Texte intégral révisé suivi d'une biographie de Henry David Thoreau. Longtemps considéré comme un apôtre de la désobéissance civile, ou tout simplement comme un anti-conformiste, Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) est aujourd'hui compté parmi les plus grands auteurs américains du XIXe siècle....

Im Jahre 1845 baut sich der Schriftsteller und Philosoph Henry David Thoreau eine Blockhütte an einem See in den Wäldern von Massachusetts. Dort lebt er zwei Jahre lang in Einklang mit der Natur und fernab der Zivilisation. Dieses Buch ist der Bericht seiner Erfahrungen in der Einsamkeit. --- 'Walden,...

"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...

This file includes: A Week on the Concord and the Merrimack Rivers, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, Walden, Canoeing in the Wilderness, A Plea for Captain John Brown, Walking, Wild Apples, and Excursions, and Cape Cod. According to Wikipedia: "Henry David Thoreau (1817 1862) was an American author,...

Walking is a lecture by Henry David Thoreau first delivered at the Concord Lyceum on April 23, 1851. It was written between 1851 and 1860, but parts were extracted from his earlier journals. Thoreau read the piece a total of ten times, more than any other of his lectures. "Walking" was first published...

Editor Harrison Gray Otis Blake was a disciple of Emerson and Thoreau. In 1888 he approached Thoreau’s writings in a unique way, assembling journal entries from different years, but all about the same season. The resulting composite portrait gives us Thoreau’s thoughts on nature, plain living, and everyday life, including his perambulations by skate and snowshoe.