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Henry David Thoreau

Born

in Concord, Massachusetts, The United States

July 12, 1817

Died

May 06, 1862

Website

http://www.walden.org

Genre

Philosophy, Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction

Influences

Robert Ingersoll, Charles Darwin, John Burroughs, Ralph Waldo Emerson, ...more

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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 ...more

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Average rating: 3.83 · 321,192 ratings · 16,187 reviews · 2,243 distinct works • Similar authors

	Walden or, Life in the Woods 3.77 avg rating — 202,231 ratings — published 1854 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Walden & Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau, W.S. Merwin (Introduction) 3.94 avg rating — 38,771 ratings — published 1849 — 732 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Civil Disobedience 3.94 avg rating — 19,231 ratings — published 1849 — 1463 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Civil Disobedience and Other Essays 4.06 avg rating — 17,653 ratings — published 1866 — 51 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Walking 3.74 avg rating — 10,824 ratings — published 1861 — 584 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Walden and Other Writings by Henry David Thoreau, Peter Matthiessen, Ralph Waldo Emerson (Introduction) 3.95 avg rating — 4,866 ratings — published 1854 — 114 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Henry David Thoreau: A Week, Walden, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod 4.23 avg rating — 2,212 ratings — published 1849 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thoughts from Walden Pond by Henry David Thoreau, Charles Gurche (Photographer), Dona Budd 3.76 avg rating — 2,179 ratings — published 1998	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Maine Woods by Henry David Thoreau, Paul Theroux (Introduction), Joseph J. Moldenhauer (Editor) 3.86 avg rating — 1,526 ratings — published 1864 — 296 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Where I Lived, and What I Lived For 3.78 avg rating — 1,517 ratings — published 1854 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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