The editor here includes the two great works on which the fame of Thoreau primarily rests. This volume offers authoritative texts of each; the text of WALDEN is that of the first edition, incorporating certain corrections and annotations that Thoreau himself made. The text of CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE... (learn more about this book)
Thoreau's major essays annotated and introduced by one of our most vital intellectuals. With The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau , Lewis Hyde gathers thirteen of Thoreau's finest short prose works and, for the first time in 150 years, presents them fully annotated and arranged in the order of their... (learn more about this book)
Excerpts from Thoreau's Walden highlight his belief in the inherent value of living life in harmony with nature. (learn more about this book)
One of America's best-loved writers is paired with photography of a wholly unique artist. Nothing must be postponed. Take time by the forelock. Now or never! You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment... The essays of Henry David Thoreau... (learn more about this book)
"This wonderful book is both a practical and a philosophical field guide to the natural gifts of the American countryside."— Audubon The final harvest of our great nature writer’s last years, Wild Fruits presents Thoreau’s distinctly American gospel—a sacramental vision of nature in which... (learn more about this book)
In more than 600 striking, thought-provoking excerpts, grouped under 17 headings, Thoreau rails against injustice, gives voice to his love of nature, and advocates simplicity and conscious living. Note. (learn more about this book)
"On tops of mountains, as everywhere to hopeful souls, it is always morning," Thoreau wrote. J. Parker Huber is along for the climb, comparing what Thoreau say in his era to what we can see today. (learn more about this book)
Thoreau developed ideas fundamental to ecology fifty years before that word was coined. He called for a science that would join man and nature-a "conscience," a moral knowledge founded on material faith. (learn more about this book)
The most uplifting passages from Walden, from the essay "Civil Disobedience" and from the Journal of Thoreau's later years. Van Anglen distills Thoreau's massive body of work into 750 of his most profound, acute ideas on subjects ranging from the ecology movement to English literature. (learn more about this book)