Henry David Thoreau Audio

This work is based on the author’s experiences during three short visits to Cape Cod between 1849 and 1855.

In the early 1850s, Henry David Thoreau took many meditative walks along the coast....

In 1849, 5 years before Henry David Thoreau published Walden, he wrote what has come to be...

Thoreau refused to pay taxes in 1846, based on his opposition to the Mexican War, and was later jailed...

Classic essay by Thoreau explaining why he went to jail rather than submit to a tax he felt unjust, Civil Disobedience served as inspiration to both Gandhi and Tolstoy and continues to be regarded as a definitive statement of the rights of the individual within the state.

Civil Disobedience is Thoreau's primary essay on how to interact with Government. Here the author argues that a citizen must always uphold conscience over what is prescribed by law.

"'What are you doing now?' he asked. 'Do you keep a journal?' So I make my first entry today."

With these words, in response to prodding from Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau embarked on a writing enterprise--his "Journal"

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Civil Disobedience is an essay by Henry David Thoreau.

Selections from Henry David Thoreau's Walden and Civil Disobedience and Ralph Waldo Emerson's...

Thoreau built his cabin near Walden Pond in 1845 on land owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson...

The ultimate gift edition of Walden for bibliophiles, aficionados, and scholars.

Thoreau’s literary classic, an elegantly written record of his experiment in simple living.

This classical autobiographical account of solitary life in the woods by Walden Pond is one of the most influential and compelling books in American literature.

Walden by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau’s life for two years, two months, and two days around the shores of Walden Pond.

Walden is the classic account of two years spent by Henry David Thoreau living at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts.

Thoreau's notes on living alone in the woods in a house he fashioned himself for over two years.

In 1845 Thoreau built himself a shanty in the woods by Walden Pond, where he lived from 1845 to 1847 to give himself a place for quiet contemplation.

Two years after graduating with Harvard’s class of 1839, Henry David Thoreau and his brother John built a riverboat and took a leisurely trip that provides the framework for A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.