Essays

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This unique and meticulously edited Henry David Thoreau collection includes: Introduction:_x000D_ Thoreau by Ralph Waldo Emerson_x000D_ Essays:_x000D_ Civil Disobedience_x000D_ Slavery in Massachusetts_x000D_ Life Without Principle_x000D_ Excursions_x000D_ Natural History of Massachusetts_x000D_ A Walk to Wachusett_x000D_ The Landlord_x000D_ A Winter Walk_x000D_ The Succession of Forest Trees_x000D_ Walking_x000D_ Autumnal Tints_x000D_ Wild Apples_x000D_ Night and Moonlight_x000D_ Aulus Persius Flaccus_x000D_ The Service_x000D_ Sir Walter Raleigh_x000D_ Prayers_x000D_ Paradise (to be) Regained_x000D_ Herald of Freedom_x000D_ Thomas Carlyle and His Works_x000D_ Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum_x000D_ A Plea for Captain John Brown_x000D_ The Last Days of John Brown_x000D_ After the Death of John Brown_x000D_ Reform and the Reformers_x000D_ The Highland Light_x000D_ Dark Ages_x000D_ Henry 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.