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Contents:
Books
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
Major Essays
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
Various Papers
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
Other Poems
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
Letters
Familiar Letters of Henry David Thoreau
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.