Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts. He spent time as a school teacher after attending Harvard College but was dismissed for his refusal to administer corporal punishment. In 1845, wanting to write his first book, he moved to Walden Pond and built his cabin on land owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It was during his time at Walden that Thoreau was imprisoned briefly for not paying taxes; this experience became the basis for his well-known essay "Civil Disobedience." He...
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
Henry David Thoreau
Walden Or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
Henry David Thoreau
Familiar Letters of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
Henry David Thoreau
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers - "Rather than love than money than fame give me truth"
Henry David Thoreau
Canoeing in the Wilderness - "How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live"
Henry David Thoreau
Cape Cod - "What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"
Henry David Thoreau
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