The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson & Henry David Thoreau

By Henry David Thoreau

2008

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Over 20 authentic historical pictures and original covers- Active table of contents- Page breaks- Year of works- Biographies- Custom cover artThe Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson & Henry David Thoreau Volume I, includes over 45 essays and works from the two of the most prominent American writers of the past. Included in this selection is Thoreau's masterpiece, Walden, which includes authentic pictures of Walden Pond. Walden is oft considered to be one of the greatest pieces of Naturalistic writing, and documents Thoreau's two year experiment in solitude. This selection is optimized for Kindle, with page breaks, active table of contents, custom cover, year of works, authentic photos, and author biographies.Works included in this anthology.RALPH WALDO Art, Character (with authentic cover), Circles, Compensation (with authentic cover), Concord Hymn, Divinity School Address (with Harvard sketching), English Traits (with authentic cover), Experience, Friendship (with authentic cover), Gifts, Heroism, History, Intellect (with authentic cover), Literary Ethics, Love, Man the Reformer, Manners, Nature, New England Reformers, Nominalist and Realist, Politics, Prudence (with authentic cover), Nature (with authentic cover), Representative Men (with authentic cover), Letters of Social Aims, Self-Reliance, Spiritual Laws, The American Scholar (with authentic cover), The Conservative, The Method of Nature, The Over-Soul, The Poet, The Transcendentalist, The Young American, Conduct of Life (with authentic cover), English Traits (with authentic cover) Letter and Social Aims, and Society and Solitude (with authentic cover). HENRY DAVID Excursion to Canada, A Plea for Captain John Brown (with authentic pictures), A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (with authentic cover), Autumnal Tints, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Night and Moonlight, Slavery in Massachusetts (with authentic pictures), The Highland Light, The Landlord, Walden (with pictures and original cover), Walking and Wild Apples

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Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, philosopher, and abolitionist who is best known for Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state. Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism. In 1817, Henry David Thoreau was born in Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University in 1837, taught briefly, then turned to writing and lecturing. Becoming a Transcendentalist and good friend of Emerson, Thoreau lived the life of simplicity he advocated in his writings. His two-year experience in a hut in Walden, on land owned by Emerson, resulted in the classic, Walden: Life in the Woods (1854). During his sojourn there, Thoreau refused to pay a poll tax in protest of slavery and the Mexican war, for which he was jailed overnight. His activist convictions were expressed in the groundbreaking On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (1849). In a diary he noted his disapproval of attempts to convert the Algonquins "from their own superstitions to new ones." In a journal he noted dryly that it is appropriate for a church to be the ugliest building in a village, "because it is the one in which human nature stoops to the lowest and is the most disgraced." (Cited by James A. Haught in 2000 Years of Disbelief.) When Parker Pillsbury sought to talk about religion with Thoreau as he was dying from tuberculosis, Thoreau replied: "One world at a time." Thoreau's philosophy of nonviolent resistance influenced the political thoughts and actions of such later figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas K. Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr. D. 1862. More: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/tho... http://thoreau.eserver.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry\_Da... http://transcendentalism-legacy.tamu.... http://www.biography.com/people/henry...