The Portable Thoreau
An updated edition of Thoreau's most widely read works
Self-described as "a mystic, a transcendentalist, and a natural philosopher to boot," Henry David Thoreau dedicated his life to preserving his freedom as a man and as an artist. Nature was the fountainhead of his inspiration and his refuge from what he considered the follies of society. Heedless of his friends' advice to live in a more orthodox manner, he determinedly pursued his own inner bent-that of a poet-philosopher-in prose and verse. Edited by noted Thoreau scholar Jeffrey S. Cramer, this edition promises to be the new standard for those interested in discovering the great thinker's influential ideas about everything from environmentalism to limited government.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been…
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March 27, 2012
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
Henry David Thoreau
The Illustrated Walden
Henry David Thoreau
Walden; Or Life in the Woods
Henry David Thoreau
Walden and Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau
The Portable Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
The American Transcendentalists
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Walden and Other Writings
Henry David Thoreau
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Henry David Thoreau
The Maine Woods
Henry David Thoreau
Cape Cod
Henry David Thoreau