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...
The Gift of Friendship - What the Wisest Minds Said About Our Deepest Bonds Across Two Thousand Years
Alfred H. Hyatt, Henry David Thoreau, Thomas Carlyle, Henry Mackenzie, Oliver Goldsmith, Samuel Johnson, George Berkeley, Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, Francis Bacon, Michel de Montaigne, Anthusa, Aristotle
Philosophy Across the Ages: Reason Society and the Soul (12 Books)
Aristotle, Confucius, Francis Bacon, H. P. Blavatsky, Henry David Thoreau, Immanuel Kant, Carl Gustav Jung
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience - The Case for Nonviolent Resistance and Individual Freedom
Henry David Thoreau, Tim Zengerink
Poets & Their Afflictions – Tuberculosis - Poems by poets all linked by suffering similar ailments
John Keats, Kahlil Gibran, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Friedrich Schiller, Emily Brontë, D H Lawrence, Henry David Thoreau, Stephen Crane, Ivor Gurney, William Ernest Henley, Sidney Lanier, George Orwell, Katherine Mansfield, Anne Brontë
The Top 10 Poets – Massachussetts - Five poems each from the best poets born in Massachussetts
Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Angelina Weld Grimké, Amy Lowell, Katherine Lee Bates, Helen Hunt Jackson, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Top 10 Poets – The American Men - Five poems each from some of the best male poets ever born in the USA
Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Vachel Lindsay, James Weldon Johnson, Stephen Vincent Benét, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville
Top 10 Poets The - The U S - New England - Five poems each from poets born in the American New England states
Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Amy Lowell, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Henry David Thoreau, James Russell Lowell, Helen Hunt Jackson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, HP Lovecraft
12 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die Philosophy
Niccolò Machiavelli, Tommaso Campanella, Francis Bacon, Thomas More, Johnn Stuart Mill, Immanuel Kant, Kahlil Gibran, Leo Tolstoy, G. K. Chesterton, Henry David Thoreau
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience - The Case for Nonviolent Resistance and Individual Freedom - A Modern Translation - Adapted for the Contemporary Reader
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau: On The Duty of Civil Disobedience - original title: Resistance to Civil Government
Henry David Thoreau
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