The Essential Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated Collection of the Thoreau's Greatest Works)

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Contents:

Walden (Life in the Woods)

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

The Maine Woods

Cape Cod

A Yankee in Canada

Canoeing in the Wilderness

Civil Disobedience

Slavery in Massachusetts

Life Without Principle

Excursions

Natural History of Massachusetts

A Walk to Wachusett

The Landlord

A Winter Walk

The Succession of Forest Trees

Walking

Autumnal Tints

Wild Apples

Night and Moonlight

Aulus Persius Flaccus

The Service

Sir Walter Raleigh

Prayers

Paradise (to be) Regained

Herald of Freedom

Thomas Carlyle and His Works

Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum

A Plea for Captain John Brown

The Last Days of John Brown

After the Death of John Brown

Reform and the Reformers

The Highland Light

Dark Ages

Poetry:

Poems of Nature

Epitaph on the World

I Am a Parcel of Vain Striving Tied

I Am the Autumnal Sun

I Knew a Man by Sight

Indeed, indeed, I cannot tell

Low Anchored Cloud Mist

Pray to What Earth

They Who Prepare my Evening Meal Below

Within the Circuit of This Plodding Life

Omnipresence

Inspiration (Quatrain)

Mission

Delay…

Translations:

The Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus

Translations from Pindar

Collected Letters

Biographies:

Henry D. Thoreau by F. B. Sanborn

Thoreau by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, surveyor, and historian. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Civil Disobedience, an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.