Essays

Essays PDF

Author: Henry D. Thoreau

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2013-05-21

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 030016498X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK →

DIV A treasure trove of Thoreau’s most noteworthy essays, with plentiful annotations by leading Thoreau scholar Jeffrey S. Cramer /div

The Essays of Henry David Thoreau

The Essays of Henry David Thoreau PDF

Author: Henry David Thoreau

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 1992-03

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780808404316

DOWNLOAD EBOOK →

To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.

The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau

The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau PDF

Author: Henry David Thoreau

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2002-05-05

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 9780865476462

DOWNLOAD EBOOK →

Hyde gathers 13 of Thoreau's finest short prose works and, for the first time in 150 years, presents them fully annotated and arranged in the order of their composition. This definitive edition includes Thoreau's most famous essays.

Henry David Thoreau: Collected Essays and Poems (LOA #124)

Henry David Thoreau: Collected Essays and Poems (LOA #124) PDF

Author: Henry David Thoreau

Publisher:

Published: 2001-04-23

Total Pages: 744

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK →

A collection of essential writings features Thoreau's poetry and essays on nature, materialism, conformity, and politics; including such works as "Slavery in Massachusetts," "Civil Disobedience," "A Winter Walk," and "Life Without Principle."

Civil Disobedience

Civil Disobedience PDF

Author: Henry David Thoreau

Publisher: The Floating Press

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 41

ISBN-13: 1775412466

DOWNLOAD EBOOK →

Thoreau wrote Civil Disobedience in 1849. It argues the superiority of the individual conscience over acquiescence to government. Thoreau was inspired to write in response to slavery and the Mexican-American war. He believed that people could not be made agents of injustice if they were governed by their own consciences.

Walden

Walden PDF

Author: Henry David Thoreau

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2016-03-22

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 1400880793

DOWNLOAD EBOOK →

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, originally published in 1854. Much of Walden's material is derived from Thoreau's journals and contains such engaging pieces from the lively "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For" and "Brute Neighbors" to the serene "Reading" and "The Pond in the Winter." Other famous sections involve Thoreau's visits with a Canadian woodcutter and with an Irish family, a trip to Concord, and a description of his bean field. This is the complete and authoritative text of Walden--as close to Thoreau's original intention as all available evidence allows. This is the authoritative text of Walden and the ideal presentation of Thoreau's great document of social criticism and dissent.

Wild Apples and Other Natural History Essays

Wild Apples and Other Natural History Essays PDF

Author: Henry David Thoreau

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2010-04-15

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 0820326364

DOWNLOAD EBOOK →

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 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. William Rossi's introduction puts the essays in the context of Thoreau's other major works, both chronologically and intellectually. Rossi also shows how these writings relate to Thoreau's life and career as both writer and naturalist: his readings of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Charles Darwin; his failed bid for commercial acceptance of his work; and his pivotal encounter with the utter wildness of the Maine woods. In the essays themselves, readers will see how Thoreau melded conventions of natural history writing with elements of two popular literary forms--travel writing and landscape writing--to explore concerns ranging from America's westward expansion to the figural dimensions of scientific facts and phenomena. Thoreau the thinker, observer, wanderer, and inquiring naturalist--all emerge in this distinctive composite picture of the economic, natural, and spiritual communities that left their marks on one of our most important early environmentalists.