Thoreau, Henry David 1817-1862

Walden by Henry David Thoreau ( Book )
1,579 editions published between 1854 and 2011 in 31 languages and held by 8,453 libraries worldwide
This graphic novel, narrated in Thoreau's own words, weaves together elements from "Walden," "Civil disobedience," "Walking," and Thoreau's journals to tell the story of his two years in the woods and of the night he spent in jail for refusing to pay a poll tax.

A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers ; Walden, or, Life in the woods ; The Maine woods ; Cape Cod by Henry David Thoreau ( Book )
22 editions published between 1929 and 1996 in English and held by 2,859 libraries worldwide
Henry David Thoreau wrote four full-length works, collected here in a single volume. Interweaving natural observation, personal experience, and historical lore, they reveal his brilliance not only as a writer, but as a naturalist, scholar, historian, poet, and philosopher. "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" is based on a boat trip taken with his brother from Concord, Massachusetts to Concord, New Hampshire. "Walden" is at once a personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, manual of self-reliance, and masterpiece of style. "The Maine Woods" and "Cape Cod" portray landscapes changing irreversibly even as he wrote. The first combines close observation of the unexplored Maine wilderness with a far-sighted plea for conservation; the second is a brilliant and unsentimental account of survival on a barren peninsula in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay.

The Maine woods by Henry David Thoreau ( Book )
181 editions published between 1848 and 2010 in 5 languages and held by 2,753 libraries worldwide
The Maine Woods is a characteristically Thoreauvian book: a personal account of exploration, of exterior and interior discovery in a natural setting, conveyed in taut, workmanlike prose. Thoreau's evocative renderings of the life of the primitive forest--its mountains, waterways, fauna, flora, and inhabitants--are valuable in themselves. But his impassioned protest against despoilment in the name of commerce and sport, which even by the 1850s threatened to deprive Americans of the "tonic of wildness," makes The Maine Woods an especially vital book for our time. This edition presents Thoreau's fullest account of the wilderness as he intended it.

Cape Cod by Henry David Thoreau ( Book )
193 editions published between 1864 and 2010 in 5 languages and held by 2,549 libraries worldwide
This is the story those who love to walk the length of lonely beaches, for Thoreau walks alone in this book.

A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau ( Book )
272 editions published between 1849 and 2010 in 4 languages and held by 2,305 libraries worldwide
Classic of American literature not only vividly narrates a boat trip Thoreau took with his brother in 1839 but also contains thought-provoking observations on literature, philosophy, Native American and Puritan histories of New England, friends, and a diversity of other topics. Of it, Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "[It] is a book of wonderful merit, which is to go far and last long.".

Walden, and other writings by Henry David Thoreau ( Book )
61 editions published between 1937 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 2,103 libraries worldwide
Gathers Thoreau's influential works, including "Walden," "Civil Disobedience," and "Slavery in Massachusetts," which reflect the naturalist's thoughts on self-reliance and moral independence.

Civil disobedience by Henry David Thoreau ( Book )
145 editions published between 1849 and 2011 in 12 languages and held by 1,979 libraries worldwide
Inspired by his opposition to slavery, Thoreau presents the theory that "the government is best that governs least."

The portable Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau ( Book )
66 editions published between 1947 and 1987 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,900 libraries worldwide
Henry David Thoreau dedicated his life to preserving his freedom as a man and an artist. Nature was the fountainhead of his inspiration and his refuge from what he considered the follies of society. Heedless of his friends' advice to live in a more orthodox manner, he determinedly pursued his own inner bent, which was that of a poet-philosopher, in prose and verse. Carl Bode brings together the best of Thoreau's works in The Portable Thoreau, a comprehensive collection of the writings of a unique and profoundly influential American thinker. The complete texts of Thoreau's classic works Walden and "Civil Disobedience," as well as selections from The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, the Journal, and eighteen poems are included. Bode's introduction rounds out this compact volume, offering a thorough and informative analysis of Thoreau and the forces that shaped his life and writing.

Wild fruits : Thoreau's rediscovered last manuscript by Henry David Thoreau ( Book )
5 editions published between 1999 and 2001 in English and held by 1,764 libraries worldwide
Thoreau presents information about the "'unnoticed wild berry whose beauty annually lends a new charm to some wild walk,'" along with what "may be considered Thoreau's last will and testament, in which he protests our desecration of the landscape, reflects on the importance of preserving wild space 'for instruction and recreation,' and envisions a new American scripture."--Jacket.

Journal by Henry David Thoreau ( Book )
43 editions published between 1906 and 2002 in 3 languages and held by 1,729 libraries worldwide