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A Novel Journal: Walden (Compact) by Henry David Thoreau
Category: Classics | 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
Essays by Henry David Thoreau
Category: Non-Fiction
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
Nature Walking by Ralph Waldo Emerson; Henry Thoreau; John C. Elder (Introduction by)
Category: Philosophy
Together in one volume, Emerson's Nature and Thoreau's Walking, is writing that defines our distinctly American relationship to nature.
October, or Autumnal Tints by Henry David Thoreau
Category: Classics
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
The Daily Henry David Thoreau - A Year of Quotes from the Man Who Lived in Season by Henry Thoreau; Laura Dassow Walls (Foreword by, Editor)
Category: Reference | Series: A\Year of Quotes Ser.
"Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each." Modernity rules our lives by clock and calendar, dividing the stream of time into units and coordinating every passing moment with the universal globe. Henry David Thorea ...Show more
The Illustrated Walden: Or, Life in the Woods by THOREAU, HENRY DAVID
Category: Nature
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 Illustrated Walden: Thoreau Bicentennial Edition by Henry Thoreau
Category: Nature
To coincide with the bicentennial of Thoreau's birth and TarcherPerigee's publication of Expect Great Things: The Life of Henry David Thoreau, here is a sumptuous rediscovery edition of the first illustrated volume of Thoreau's classic, as originally issued in 1897. In 1897, thirty-five years after ...Show more
The Portable Thoreau by Henry Thoreau
Category: Nature
Self-described as 'a mystic, a transcendentalist, and a natural philosopher to boot', Henry David Thoreau dedicated his life to preserving his freedom as a man and as an artist. Nature was the fountainhead of his inspiration and his refuge from what he considered the follies of society. Heedless of his ...Show more
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Walden is a book by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and-to some degree-a manual for self-reliance.First publi ...Show more
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Category: Nature | Series: Concord Library
In honor of the bicentennial of Henry David Thoreau's birth, this edition of Walden features an introduction and annotations by renowned environmentalist Bill McKibben"Bill McKibben gives us Thoreau's Walden as the gospel of the present moment, as a neccessary book because it is useful right now."--Robe ...Show more
Walden by Henry Thoreau; Terry Tempest Williams (Foreword by)
Category: Fiction | Series: Shambhala Pocket Library
In July 1845, Henry David Thoreau built a small cottage in the woods near Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. During the two years and two months he spent there, he began to write Walden, a chronicle of his communion with nature that became one of the most influential and compelling books in American ...Show more
Walden by Henry D. Thoreau
Category: Classics | Series: Princeton Classics
One of the most influential and compelling books in American literature, Walden is a vivid account of the years that Henry D. Thoreau spent alone in a secluded cabin at Walden Pond. This edition--introduced by noted American writer John Updike--celebrates the perennial importance of a classic work, orig ...Show more