Henry David Thoreau


Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12, 1817, in Concord, Massachusetts. His father worked successively as a farmer, a grocer, and a manufacturer of pencils, and the family was frequently in difficult financial straits. After studying locally, Thoreau won admission to Harvard. When Ralph Waldo Emerson moved to Concord in 1835, Thoreau formed a close relationship with him (although the friendship would later give way to mutual criticism) and with others associated with the Transcendentalist group, including Margaret Fuller, Orestes Brownson, Bronson Alcott, Jones Very, and Theodore Parker. He worked in his father's pencil business while keeping the journals that would become his life's work, running to millions of words.

Thoreau took over the Concord Academy for several years,…

Walden

Walden

Henry David Thoreau
The Illustrated Walden

The Illustrated Walden

Henry David Thoreau
Walden; Or Life in the Woods

Walden; Or Life in the Woods

Henry David Thoreau
Walden and Civil Disobedience

Walden and Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau
The Portable Thoreau

The Portable Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau
The American Transcendentalists

The American Transcendentalists

Edited and with an Introduction by Lawrence Buell

Wild Fruits

Henry David Thoreau;Bradley Dean
Walden and Other Writings

Walden and Other Writings

Henry David Thoreau
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers The Maine Woods

The Maine Woods

Henry David Thoreau
Cape Cod

Cape Cod

Henry David Thoreau
Walden and Civil Disobedience

Walden and Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau; Introduction by Kristen Case; Notes by Michael Meyer

Books by Henry David Thoreau from Shambhala

Walden

Walden

Henry David Thoreau and Henry David Thoreau

Books by Henry David Thoreau from North Atlantic Books

Thoreau and the Art of Life

Thoreau and the Art of Life

Henry David Thoreau

Books by Henry David Thoreau from New York Review Books

Books by Henry David Thoreau from Beacon Press

Walden: With an Introduction and Annotations by Bill McKibben Nature and Walking

Nature and Walking

Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau

Books by Henry David Thoreau from The Library of America

On Civil Disobedience

On Civil Disobedience

Hannah Arendt and Henry David Thoreau
Walden

Walden

Henry David Thoreau

Books by Henry David Thoreau from Catapult