Henry David Thoreau

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Of Friendship: An Essay from a Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Henry David Thoreau

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Thoreau at Walden

Henry David Thoreau; John Porcellino; Center for Cartoon Studies

Offers readers a graphic biography of this celebrated writer through a review of his work, observations, philosophies, and ideas while living on Walden Pond in the mid-1800s. Simultaneous. 25,000 first printing.

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The Early Spring Massachusetts

Henry David Thoreau

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Walden

Henry David Thoreau

In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his pencil-manufacturing business and began building a cabin on the shore of Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. This lyrical yet practical-minded book is at once a record of the 26 months Thoreau spent in withdrawal from society -- an account of the daily minutiae of building, planting, hunting, cooking, and, always, observing nature -- and a declaration of independence from the oppressive mores of the world he left behind. Elegant, witty, and quietly searching, Walden remains the most persuasive American argument for simplicity of life clarity of conscience.

For the first time, the authoritative editions of works by major American novelists, poets, scholars, and essayists collected in the hardcover volumes of The Library of America are being published singly in a series of handsome paperback books. A distinguished writer has contributed an introduction for each volume, which also includes a chronology of the author's life and career, an essay on the text, and notes.

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Other editions: Softcover - 2008, 2008, Softcover - 2008, 2008, Softcover - 2007, Softcover - 2007, 2004, Softcover - 2004, Hardcover - 2004, Softcover - 2004

Thoreau Unmuzzled: A Free-Speech Friendly Sampler for Patriots, Pundits & Politicos; The Seer of Walden Speaks Out on War, God, Human Rights and Government Wrongs

Henry David Thoreau

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Thoreau Journal

Henry David Thoreau

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Cape Cod

Henry David Thoreau; Joseph J. Moldenhauer; Santa Barbara Textual Center University of California

Thoreaus compelling account of Cape Cod is here presented in the complete and definitive text, excluding only the critical apparatus. His trips to the Cape, he wrote, were intended to afford "a better view than I had yet had of the ocean." In the plants, animals, topography, weather, people, and human works of Massachusetts long projection into the Atlantic, he finds "another world." Encounters with the ocean dominate the book, from the fatal shipwreck of the opening episode to the late reflections on the Pilgrims Cape Cod landing and reconnaissance. Along the way, Thoreau relates the experiences of fishermen and oystermen, farmers and salvagers, lighthouse-keepers and ship-captains, as well as his own intense confrontations with the sea as he travels the land's outermost margins. Chronicles of exploration, settlement, and survival on the Cape lead Thoreau to reconceive the history of New England and to recognize the parochialism of history itself.

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Other editions: Softcover - 2008, Hardcover - 2008, Softcover - 2004, Softcover - 2004, 2002, 2001, 1997, Hardcover - 1995, Hardcover - 1990

Henry David Thoreau: The Poet's Delay A Collection of Poetry by America's Greatest Observer of Nature/Illustrated With Watercolors by Winslow Home

Henry David Thoreau

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Other editions: Hardcover - 1993, Hardcover - 1992

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Thoreau's Cape Cod

Henry David Thoreau

Magnificent full-color photographs highlight a collection of the author's timeless essays based on his three walking tours of Cape Cod, documenting his observations of the natural wonders of the region and his reflections on the complex relationship between the sea and the shore.

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The First and Last Journeys of Thoreau: Lately Discovered Among His Unpublished Journals and Manuscripts

Henry David Thoreau

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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau

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Excursions

Henry David Thoreau

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Other editions: Softcover - 2007, Softcover - 2005, Softcover - 2004, Softcover - 2004, Hardcover - 2004

Walden with Thoreau's Essay "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience"

Henry David Thoreau

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Thoreau's Excursions with a biographical 'sketch' by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Henry David Thoreau

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Excursions, Poems and Familiar Letters

Henry David Thoreau

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Early Spring in Massachusetts: From the Journal of Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau

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Excursions, Poems and Familiar Letters

Henry David Thoreau

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Thoreau's Excursions with a biographical 'sketch' by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Henry David Thoreau

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Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

Henry David Thoreau

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Thoreau's Excursions with a biographical 'sketch' by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Henry David Thoreau

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Walden or Life in the Woods

Henry David Thoreau

In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his pencil-manufacturing business and began building a cabin on the shore of Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. This lyrical yet practical-minded book is at once a record of the 26 months Thoreau spent in withdrawal from society -- an account of the daily minutiae of building, planting, hunting, cooking, and, always, observing nature -- and a declaration of independence from the oppressive mores of the world he left behind. Elegant, witty, and quietly searching, Walden remains the most persuasive American argument for simplicity of life clarity of conscience.

For the first time, the authoritative editions of works by major American novelists, poets, scholars, and essayists collected in the hardcover volumes of The Library of America are being published singly in a series of handsome paperback books. A distinguished writer has contributed an introduction for each volume, which also includes a chronology of the author's life and career, an essay on the text, and notes.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Other editions: 2007, Softcover - 1995, Hardcover - 1993, 1992, Softcover - 1992

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Walking

Henry David Thoreau

The ideal book of portable wisdom from America's quintessential nature writer. Thoreau's celebrated essay shows how anyone can more fully appreciate nature's wonders by "sauntering" in tranquillity with senses wide open.

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Other editions: Softcover - 2007, Softcover - 2004, Softcover - 2004, Hardcover - 2000, Softcover - 2000, 1989, Softcover - 1989, Hardcover - 1988

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Summer: From the Journal of Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

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Wild Apples & A Plea for Captain John Brown

Henry David Thoreau

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