Henry David Thoreau

Easton Press Henry David Thoreau books

Walden or Life in the Woods - 100 Greatest Books Ever Written - 1981
A Week on the Concord & Merrimack Rivers - 1969

Franklin Library Henry David Thoreau books

Walden: Life in the Woods - 100 Greatest Books of All Time - 1976
Walden: Life in the Woods - 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature - 1981
A Week on the Concord & Merrimack Rivers - 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature - 1983
Walden or Life in The Woods - World's Best Loved Books - 1983

 

Author Henry David Thoreau biography

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American author who was born in Concord Massachusetts. He attended Harvard University, and upon graduation became a teacher and tutor. In 1841 he moved into the home of famous American writer Ralph Waldo Emerson. Over the following two years he became acquainted with other prominent figures of American Literature during that time. It was after his first stay at the home of Ralph Waldo Emerson, that Henry David Thoreau moved into a rough cabin on the shore of Walden Pond, which is located near his home town of Concord. Over the four years that he lived at Walden Pond, he earned money through small local handyman jobs. His spare time was consumed with the study of nature, and the woods around Walden Pond.

Following the four years in the woods on Walden Pond, Henry David Thoreau again lived with Ralph Waldo Emerson for a brief time until finally moving in with his sister and parents in 1849. It was at this time that Henry David Thoreau wrote A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers which is one of his masterpiece novels. The story is a memoir of a trip he took on the Concord River and Merrimack River in 1839. Using his unique way of nature and wilderness observation, he was able to express his personality through these observations in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. In his next masterpiece Walden, or Life in The Woods, he reflects on his time and studies at Walden Pond.

As with Walden and A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, all books by Henry David Thoreau are written in letter form. All of his other published works were taken from his journals and letters following his death. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, and Walden were the only books by Henry David Thoreau that were published prior to his death. Among the various published letters and journals by Henry David Thoreau are:
Aulus Persius Flaccus - 1840
The Service - 1840
A Walk to Wachusett - 1842
Paradise Regained - 1843
The Landlord - 1846
Herald of Freedom - 1844
Sir Walter Raleigh - 1844
Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum - 1845
Thomas Carlyle and His Works - 1847
Reform and the Reformers - 1848
Resistance to Civil Government, or Civil Disobedience - 1849
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers - 1849
An Excursion to Canada - 1853
Walden - 1854
Slavery in Massachusetts - 1854
Remarks After the Hanging of John Brown - 1859
A Plea for Captain John Brown - 1859
The Last Days of John Brown - 1860
Walking - 1861
Wild Apples: The History of the Apple Tree - 1862
Autumnal Tints - 1862
Night and Moonlight - 1863
Life Without Principle - 1863
Excursions - 1863
The Maine Woods - 1864
The Highland Light - 1864
Letters to Various Persons - 1865
Cape Cod - 1865
A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers - 1866
Early Spring in Massachusetts - 1881
Summer - 1884
Winter - 1888
Autumn - 1892
Misellanies - 1894
Familiar Letters of Henry David Thoreau - 1894
Poems of Nature - 1895
Some Unpublished Letters of Henry D. and Sophia E. Thoreau - 1898
The First and Last Journeys of Henry David Thoreau - 1905
Journal of Henry David Thoreau - 1906