Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, poet, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist. He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.
Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism. His literary style interweaves close natural observation, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore; while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and "Yankee" love of practical detail. He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time imploring one to abandon waste and illusion in order to discover life's true essential needs.
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Walden
256 editions - first published in 1854 Read -
A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
54 editions - first published in 1849 Read -
The writings of Henry David Thoreau
42 editions - first published in 1884 Read -
Journal
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The Maine woods
41 editions - first published in 1803 Read -
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
21 editions - first published in 1903 Read -
Walking
20 editions - first published in 1914 Borrow -
A Yankee in Canada: with Anti-slavery and reform papers.
15 editions - first published in 1866 Read -
The portable Thoreau
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Thoreau
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Walden and other writings
11 editions - first published in 1937 Borrow -
Anti-slavery and reform papers
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Letters to various persons
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Sir Walter Raleigh
8 editions - first published in 1905 Read -
A week on the Concord and Merrimac rivers
8 editions - first published in 1893 Read -
Winter
8 editions - first published in 1887 Read -
Early spring in Massachusetts
7 editions - first published in 1881 Read -
Thoreau's Thoughts: Selections From The Writings Of Henry David Thoreau
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The first and last journeys of Thoreau: lately discovered among his unpublished journals and manuscripts
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The variorum Walden
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Journals: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau.
7 editions - first published in 1892 Read -
Henry David Thoreau
7 editions - first published in 1934 Borrow -
A Yankee in Canada with Anti Slavery and Reform Papers
6 editions - first published in 1876 Read -
Summer: from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau
6 editions - first published in 1884 Read -
Collected poems of Henry Thoreau
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Thoreau on man & nature
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Wild Apples
6 editions - first published in 1956 Borrow -
Works of Henry David Thoreau
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Wild Fruits: Thoreau's Rediscovered Last Manuscript
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Some unpublished letters of Henry D. and Sophia E. Thoreau: a chapter in the history of a still-born book
5 editions - first published in 1899 Read -
The works of Thoreau
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In wildness is the preservation of the world
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Walden and other writings of Henry David Thoreau
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Familiar letters of Henry David Thoreau
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The living thoughts of Thoreau
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The annotated Walden: Walden, or, Life in the woods
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Friendship: an essay
4 editions - first published in 1907 Read -
The succession of forest trees
4 editions - first published in 1887 Read -
Collected poems: Edited by Carl Bode.
4 editions - first published in 1964 Borrow -
In wildness is the preservation of the world, from Henry David Thoreau
4 editions - first published in 1962 Borrow -
Of friendship: an essay from A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers
4 editions - first published in 1901 Read -
The Service
4 editions - first published in 1902 Read -
Familiar letters: Edited with introd. and notes by F.B. Sanborn.
4 editions - first published in 1894 Read -
Selections from Thoreau: Edited, with an Introduction by Henry Stephens Salt
3 editions - first published in 1895 Read -
Thoreau's world: miniatures from his journal
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Walden (Our American Heritage)
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Canoeing in the wilderness
3 editions - first published in 1916 Read -
Henry David's house
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The journal of Henry D. Thoreau
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The illustrated Walden
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I to myself: an annotated selection from the journal of Henry D. Thoreau
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Thoreau, Philosopher Of Freedom: Writings On Liberty By Henry David Thoreau
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The illustrated Walden
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Thoreau at Walden
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Henry David's house
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The winged life: the poetic voice of Henry David Thoreau
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Correspondence: edited by Walter Harding and Carl Bode.
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Thoreau's vision: the major essays
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Walden, Civil disobedience, and other writings: authoritative texts, journal, reviews and posthumous assessments, criticism
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Friendship, love & marriage
3 editions - first published in 1910 Read -
The thoughts of Thoreau
3 editions - first published in 1962 Borrow -
Thoreau on Freedom: Attending to Man
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A Yankee in Canada: With Anti-slavery and Reform Papers
2 editions - first published in 1866 Read -
Through the year with Thoreau: sketches of nature from the writings of Henry D. Thoreau, with corresponding photographic illustrations. : By Herbert W. Gleason.
2 editions - first published in 1917 Read -
Representative selections: With introd., bibliography, and notes by Bartholow V. Crawford.
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Excursions, Poems And Familiar Letters V2
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Thoreau on writing
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Political writings
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Ktaadn
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Walden LP
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Where I stand: Selections from the Journals
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Henry David Thoreau, a man for our time
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Katahdin and Chesuncook
2 editions - first published in 1909 Read -
Two Thoreau letters
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Cape Cod & the Maine Woods
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Summer: from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau
2 editions - first published in 1884 Read -
Excursions, Poems And Familiar Letters V1
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Sweet, wild world: Selections from Thoreau's Journals
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Meditations of Henry David Thoreau
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Companion to Thoreau's correspondence
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Camping in the Maine woods
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Walden & Duty of Civil Disobedience
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Thoreau and the Art of Life
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Cap Cod
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The essays of Henry D. Thoreau
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The best of Thoreau's journals
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Early Spring in Massachusetts: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau ..
2 editions - first published in 1881 Read -
Essays and other writings of Henry Thoreau
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The annotated Walden: Walden: or, Life in the woods
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The correspondence of Henry David Thoreau
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Thoreau's Minnesota journey: two documents.
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The Natural history essays
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miscellanies: With a biographical sketch by Ralph Waldo Emerson and a general index to the writings. --
2 editions - first published in 1893 Read -
Thoreau's Maine woods
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Henry David Thoreau--the poet'sdelay: A Collection of Poetry by America's Greatest Observer of Nature
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Walden and Selected Essays
2 editions - first published in 1947 -
A Plea For Captain John Brown: read to the citizens of Concord, Massachusetts on Sunday evening, October thirtieth, eighteen fifty-nine.
2 editions - first published in 1969 -
The variorum Civil disobedience
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The selected works of Thoreau
2 editions - first published in 1975 -
Great short works of Henry David Thoreau
2 editions - first published in 1982
Henry David Thoreau
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