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

This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices.Contents:Walden (Life in the Woods)A Week on the Concord and Merrimack RiversThe Maine WoodsCape CodA Yankee in CanadaCanoeing in the WildernessCivil DisobedienceSlavery in MassachusettsLife Without PrincipleExcursionsNatural History of MassachusettsA Walk to WachusettThe LandlordA Winter WalkThe Succession of Forest TreesWalkingAutumnal TintsWild ApplesNight and MoonlightAulus Persius FlaccusThe ServiceSir Walter RaleighPrayersParadise (to be) RegainedHerald of FreedomThomas Carlyle and His WorksWendell Phillips Before the Concord LyceumA Plea for Captain John BrownThe Last Days of John BrownAfter the Death of John BrownReform and the ReformersThe Highland LightDark AgesPoetry:Poems of NatureEpitaph on the WorldI Am a Parcel of Vain Striving TiedI Am the Autumnal SunI Knew a Man by SightIndeed, indeed, I cannot tellLow Anchored Cloud MistPray to What EarthThey Who Prepare my Evening Meal BelowWithin the Circuit of This Plodding LifeOmnipresenceInspiration (Quatrain)MissionDelay…Translations:The Prometheus Bound of AeschylusTranslations from PindarCollected LettersBiographies:Henry D. Thoreau by F. B. SanbornThoreau by Ralph Waldo EmersonHenry 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.