books by Henry Thoreau

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Twelve Henry David Thoreau Bookmarks

Henry David Thoreau

Dover Publications, 2003

Cute
These bookmarks are cute, small and handy. They have a smooth finish and a glossy texture. The prints are not in-your-face. I stick them in dark or depressing books to calm me when the reading gets intense. All for just a few dollars.

Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic

Henry David Thoreau, Scot Miller

Houghton Mifflin, 2004

Revisiting Walden
On a family vacation many years ago, I visited Walden Pond and walked all around it. In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the publication of Thoreau's Walden, the Walden Woods Project published, in 2004, this illustrated edition of the work with stunning color ...

Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition

Henry D. Thoreau

Yale University Press, 2004

Beautiful and accessible
This edition of Walden is a joy to read, with lovely typeface and layout. I am not a Thoreau scholar, but found the annotations accessible and absorbing. The layout allows you to read Walden straight through or wander off into the annotated notes, depending on your ...

Walden (Concord Library)
Henry David Thoreau

Beacon Press, 2004

On the 150th anniversary of its publication, a new edition of the nature classic First published in 1854, Henry David Thoreau"s groundbreaking book has influenced generations of readers and continues to inspire and inform anyone with an open mind and a love of nature. With Bill McKibben providing a newly revised Introduction and helpful ...

Walden, Civil Disobedience, and Other Writings (Norton Critical Editions)
Henry David Thoreau

W. W. Norton, 2007

This revised and expanded Norton Critical Edition reprints the texts of Walden, Civil Disobedience, Slavery in Massachusetts, Walking , and Wild Apples . All are annotated for student readers. Also included are related selections from Thoreau's Journal . "Reviews and Posthumous Assessments" includes reactions to Thoreau and his writing by ...

The Portable Thoreau (Penguin Classics)

Henry David Thoreau

Penguin Books, 1964

Must Read
This volume represents a collected works of Thoreau's writings, which a previous reviewer has done well to catalog. Every couple of years I find myself returning to this book to walk with Thoreau and attempt to rediscover my core values and love for pure writing and ...

Walden; Or, Life in the Woods (Dover Thrift Editions)

Henry David Thoreau

Dover Publications, 1995

The Hobo Philosopher
My first copy of this book was indubitably from some other publisher. So I'm not commenting on this particular volume but the content of the work itself. I have always loved this book but it wasn't until recent years that I realized what a controversial book this was. ...

Walden

Henry David Thoreau

Digireads.com, 2005

We read this in high school english: we became obsessed
Back in high school this was required reading...not the whole thing but a decent chunk. Pretty much all of us became obsessed with this book and we'd talk about it all the time, both during and after class. Our teacher was really good at his job, but this is also ...

Civil Disobedience and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions)

Henry David Thoreau

Dover Publications, 1993

The Persistance Of The Philosophers ...
"Because they could not seize my thoughts, they decided, to punish my body...": this sentence was the first,which remaind in my memory, consolidated in my soul, reason enough, to explore more about this Henry David Thoreau (12.7.1817-2.5.1862). He moved in the same ...

Walden and Civil Disobedience (150th Anniversary) (Signet Classics)

Henry David Thoreau

Signet Classics, 2004

He heard a different drummer- The sun is but a morning star
Thoreau is more than simply a writer who produced a great American classic. He exemplified the idea which perhaps as much as any other has come to be at the heart of the American creed. "If a man does not keep pace to his companion, perhaps it is because he hears a ...

The Maine Woods (Penguin Nature Library)

Henry David Thoreau

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1988

Thoreau's Three Ambitious Adventures in Maine
"The Maine Woods" relates three separate trips Henry Thoreau made to the Mount Katahdin and Allagash Wilderness Waterway region of Maine At 29 years old in 1846, at 36 years old in 1853, and at 40 years old in 1857. In each of the stories he travels with a friend by ...

Walking

Henry David Thoreau

FQ Classics, 2008

In defense of wilderness
More than any book, this argues for experiencing nature and preserving wilderness. Thoreau himself saw that fewer passenger pigeons were visiting and even then was aware of threats. Though first spoken in lectures on 1851, and 1856-1857, and published in June 1862 ...

Walden : An Annotated Edition

Henry David Thoreau

Houghton Mifflin, 1995

Rich and Profound
To a citydweller who enjoys the modern conveniences, the idea of building a primitive shed in the woods and observing Nature for days on end was entirely unappealing. I felt I would have no sympathy with the Thoreauvian worldview. I was pleasantly surprised. Thoreau ...

Henry David Thoreau : A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers / Walden; Or, Life in the Woods / The Maine ...

Henry David Thoreau

Library of America, 1985

The Library of America's Thoreau
While reading the four books of Henry David Thoreau (1817 -- 1862) included in this volume, I was reminded of the piano sonata no. 2, the "Concord" sonata by the American composer Charles Ives (1874 -- 1954) and decided to listen to it again to complement my reading. ...

The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau

Henry D. Thoreau

North Point Press, 2002

The best reading copy of Thoreau's short prose
Astonishing that so many pages of such great writing (and such wonderful, interesting annotations) can be purchased for so little money. We have needed an inexpensive annotated edition of Thoreau's best short prose for a very long time, and this clearly fits the bill. ...