Author: Henry David Thoreau

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 i...

A comprehensive and authoritative collection of Thoreau quotations on more than 150 subjects, from beauty to wisdomFew writers are more quotable th...

The ultimate gift edition of Walden for bibliophiles, aficionados, and scholars  “Replaces all other available editions of Walden as the most attra...

Henry D. Thoreau traveled to the backwoods of Maine in 1846, 1853, and 1857. Originally published in 1864, and published now with a new introductio...

Excursions presents texts of nine essays, including some of Henry D. Thoreau's most engaging and popular works, newly edited and based on the most ...

From 1837 to 1861, Thoreau kept a Journal that began as a conventional record of ideas, grew into a writer's notebook, and eventually became the pr...

Thoreau's compelling account of Cape Cod is here presented in the complete and definitive text. His trips to the Cape, he wrote, were intended to a...

From 1837 to 1861, Thoreau kept a Journal that began as a conventional record of ideas, grew into a writer's notebook, and eventually became the pr...

Thoreau's Walden, ostensibly a simple account of a year spent alone in a cabin by a pond in the woods, is one of the most influential and complex b...

The writing of Henry David Thoreau is as full of life today as it was when he published Walden one hundred years ago. In seeking to understand natu...

`The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation' In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his home town of Concord, Massachusetts to begin a new life a...

Henry D. Thoreau's classic A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers is published now as a new paperback edition and includes an introduction by n...

This new paperback edition of Henry D. Thoreau's compelling account of Cape Cod contains the complete, definitive text of the original. Introduced ...

These thirteen selections from the polemical writings of Henry D. Thoreau represent every stage in his twenty-two years of active writing. This edi...

In the fall of 1850 Henry Thoreau embarked upon an excursion into the French-Canadian province of Quebec, with stops in Montreal and Quebec City. H...

A selection of ruminative nature writing on walking and the beauty of New England, here Thoreau’s characteristically wide-ranging and philosophical...

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) championed the belief that people of conscience were at liberty to follow their own opinion. In these selections fr...

This set of timeless essays from the quintessential American shares his valuable philosophies on nature, solitude, slavery, religion, politics, ful...

In the fall of 1850 Henry Thoreau embarked upon an excursion into the French-Canadian province of Quebec, with stops in Montreal and Quebec City. H...

As a unique feature, the Third Edition includes generous excerpts from Thoreau's journal, reprinted by special arrangements with Princeton Universi...

The ultimate gift edition of Walden for bibliophiles, aficionados, and scholars  “Replaces all other available editions of Walden as the most attra...

From 1837 to 1861, Henry D. Thoreau kept a Journal that would become the principal imaginative work of his career. The source of much of his publis...