One of the most influential and compelling books in American literature, Walden is a vivid account of the years that Henry D. Thoreau spent alone in a secluded cabin at Walden Pond. This ...

Writings of Henry D. Thoreau 20 The Correspondence of Henry D. Thoreau: Volume 2: 1849-1856 Henry David Thoreau This is the second volume in the first full-scale scholarly edition of Thoreau’s ...

In her spectacular 2017 biography, Henry David Thoreau: A Life, Laura Dassow Walls marshaled a regiment of facts to combat the idea that Thoreau lived a lonely existence. Thoreau spent only two of his ...

Henry David Thoreau's thinking about a number of issues - including ... and the essential relation between scientific 'facts' and poetic 'truths' - speaks to our historical moment as clearly as it did ...