HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. ”― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Walden and Civil Disobedience (Collins Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Thoreau, Henry David`

Genre Fiction

William Collins

Two of Thoreau's most famous essays in one Kindle edition.

Walden & On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

Holt; Rinehart; Winston

Thoreau's classic account of his experiment in simple living at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts, is accompanied by "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience," a protest against governmental interference with individual rights and liberty.

Walden Or, Life in the Woods and the Duty of Civil Disobedience

History & Criticism

Harpercollins

Thoreau's narratives of his journeys into the Maine wilderness are presented

The Maine Woods

In 1845 Thoreau leased some land owned by his friend and mentor, Ralph Waldo Emerson on Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts, and lived in a cabin on it for two years, two months, and two days. The experience gave Thoreau the chance to make keen observations on the world around him. The result became an American classic: Walden explores not only the soul of the searching Thoreau, but defines what it means to be a truly free person, and distills the essence of our relationship of Nature.

Walden

History

Americas

Harper Large Print

One Great Author. One Great CD."'What are you doing now?' he asked. 'Do you keep a journal?' So I make my first entry today."With these words, in response to prodding from Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau embarked on a writing enterprise—his Journal—that occupied him continuously over the entire period of his literary career, from 1837 to 1862. In one sense Thoreau's Journal is his greatest achievement as a writer, the remarkable record of a remarkable man's view of the world. Ranging in topic from entries titled "Young Women at Parties" to "Sunlight after Storm", the Journal is neither diary nor autobiography in the usual meaning of these terms, because the daily chronicle and the narrative of outward events are minor aspects of this voluminous work. The Journal is clearly not the work of a diarist, but the notebook of a writer dedicated to the continuous practice of composition.

Essential Thoreau CD: Excerpts From the Journal of Henry David Thoreau

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Caedmon

A meandering ode to the simple act and accomplished art of taking a walk. Profound and humorous, companionable and curmudeonly, Walking, by America's first nature writer, is your personal and portable guide to the activity that, like no other, awakens the senses and the soul to the "absolute freedom and wildness" of nature.

Walking (Little Books of Wisdom)

United States

HarperOne

Edited, with an Introduction, by William Howarth

Walden and Other Writings

Howarth, William

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Thoreau's Vision: The Major Essays

PRENTICE/HALL

Thoreau: The major essays

Dutton

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