Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862; born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, naturalist, pacifist, tax resister and philosopher who is famous for Walden (available at ) on simple living amongst nature and Civil Disobedience (available at ) on resistance to civil government. He was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the Fugitive Slave Law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending the radical John Brown. 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.

Bibliography

• A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)
• Civil Disobedience (1849)
• Slavery in Massachusetts (1854)
• Walden (1854)
• A Plea for Captain John Brown (1860)
• Excursions (1863)
• Life Without Principle
• The Maine Woods (1864)
• Cape Cod (1865)
• Early Spring in Massachusetts (1881)
• Summer (1884)
• Winter (1888)
• Autumn (1892)
• Miscellanies (1894)
• Journal of Henry David Thoreau (1906)

Online texts

• Autumnal Tints - courtesy of Wikisource.
• Cape Cod - Thoreau Reader
• On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
• Civil Disobedience - courtesy of Wikisource.
• The Highland Light - courtesy of Wikisource.
• The Landlord - courtesy of Wikisource.
• Life Without Principle - courtesy of Wikisource.
• The Maine Woods - Thoreau Reader
• Night and Moonlight - courtesy of Wikisource.
• A Plea for Captain John Brown
• Slavery in Massachusetts - Thoreau Reader
• Walden
• Walden - Thoreau Reader
• Walking - courtesy of Wikisource.
• Walking
• A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
• Wild Apples: The History of the Apple Tree
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