Henry David Thoreau, (born July 12, 1817, Concord, Massachusetts, U.S.—died May 6, 1862, Concord), American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher renowned for having lived the doctrines of Transcendentalism as recorded in his masterwork, Walden (1854), and for having been a vigorous advocate of civil liberties, as evidenced in the essay “Civil Disobedience” (1849).
Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry amount to more than 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions are his writings on natural history and philosophy, in which he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern-day environmentalism. His literary style interweaves close observation of nature, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore, while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and attention to practical detail. He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time he advocated abandoning waste and illusion in order to discover life's true essential needs.
The lists below can be found on this app that give some his main works:
A Plea for Captain John Brown
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Canoeing in the wilderness
Cape Cod
Excursions
Excursions, and Poems
Familiar Letters
Journal 01, 1837-1846
Journal 02, 1850-September 15, 1851
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Paradise (to be) Regained
Poems of Nature
The Maine Woods
The Service
Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience
Walking
Wild Apples
Credits :
All of the books under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License [www.gutenberg.org]. This ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States. If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook.
Readium is available under BSD 3-Clause license
Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry amount to more than 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions are his writings on natural history and philosophy, in which he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern-day environmentalism. His literary style interweaves close observation of nature, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore, while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and attention to practical detail. He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time he advocated abandoning waste and illusion in order to discover life's true essential needs.
The lists below can be found on this app that give some his main works:
A Plea for Captain John Brown
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Canoeing in the wilderness
Cape Cod
Excursions
Excursions, and Poems
Familiar Letters
Journal 01, 1837-1846
Journal 02, 1850-September 15, 1851
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Paradise (to be) Regained
Poems of Nature
The Maine Woods
The Service
Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience
Walking
Wild Apples
Credits :
All of the books under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License [www.gutenberg.org]. This ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States. If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook.
Readium is available under BSD 3-Clause license
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