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Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, poet, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist. He is best known for his book 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. His literary style interweaves close natural observation, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore; while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and "Yankee" love of practical detail. He was also deeply interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time imploring one to abandon waste and illusion in order to discover life's true essential needs.

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American essayist, poet, and philosopher (1817–1862)

Born 12 July 1817
Died 6 May 1862

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  • Cover of: Elevating ourselves: Thoreau on mountains

    First published in 1999 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Essay on the duty of civil disobedience and Walden.

    First published in 1968 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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    First published in 1895 1 edition — 1 previewable
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    First published in 1992 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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    First published in 1962 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: The illuminated Walden: in the footsteps of Thoreau : excerpts from the book Walden, or, Life in the woods

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  • Cover of: The illustrated world of Thoreau

    First published in 1974 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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    First published in 2000 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Material faith: Thoreau on science

    First published in 1999 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: The natural man

    First published in 1978 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: New suns will arise: from the journals of Henry David Thoreau

    First published in 2000 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Night and moonlight

    First published in 1921 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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    First published in 1992 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Reform papers.

    First published in 1973 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Selections from the journals

    First published in 1995 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Simplify, simplify and other quotations from Henry David Thoreau

    First published in 1996 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Thoreau on land: nature's canvas

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American essayist, poet, and philosopher (1817–1862)

Born 12 July 1817
Died 6 May 1862
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Thoreau, henry david, 1817-1862, American Authors, Description and travel, Natural history, Quotations, Nature, American literature, Biography, Quotations, maxims, Civil disobedience, Fiction, History, Solitude, Classic Literature, Correspondence, Social life and customs, Wilderness areas, Diaries, Philosophy, american, Resistance to Government, Travel, Aesthetic realism, American essays, American Quotations, Confederacy
Places
Massachusetts, United States, Walden Woods (Mass.), New England, Alabama, Cape Cod (Mass.), Owl Creek Bridge, Walden Woods, Cape Cod, Mallard residence, Milford meeting house, Piscataquis County (Me.), Andover, Barbados, China, Concord River (Mass.), Eastern Europe, England, Maine, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Merrimack River (N.H. and Mass.), Missouri, Saint Louis, Salem, Salem (Mass.)
People
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), Peyton Farquhar, Elizabeth, Mr. Hooper, Brently Mallard, Devil, John Brown (1800-1859), Josephine, Louise Mallard, Richards, Abigail Williams, Amanda Wingfield, Ann Putnam, Arthur Miller (1915-), Betty Parris, Bridget Bishop, Elizabeth Proctor, Ezekiel Cheever, George Herrick, George Jacobs, Giles Corey, God, Jim O'Connor, John Hale, John Hathorne
Time
19th century, 1861-1865, American Civil War, Civil War, 1861-1865, 1692, 1861-65, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, 1844-1860, 1600s, 1764-1850, 1783-1865, 1843-1863, 1854, 19e siècle, A trip with his brother on 1839, Civil War, December, Jin dai, Siglo XIX, carnival

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  • Henry D. Thoreau
  • Henry Thoreau
  • Henry David Henry David Thoreau
  • Henry David THOREAU
  • Henry David Thoreau Thoreau
  • Henry Thoreau Walden
  • (mei) Suoluo (Thoreau, Henry David
  • henry david thoreau
  • David, Thoreau, Henry

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December 5, 2023 Edited by Gustav-Landauer-Bibliothek Witten remove inventaire.io
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