The Maine Woods

By Henry David Thoreau

"What a wilderness walk for a man to take alone!...Here was traveling of the old heroic kind over the unaltered face of nature." -Henry David ThoreauOver a period of three years, Thoreau made three...

Walden and Civil Disobedience

By Henry David Thoreau

A transcendentalist classic on social responsibility and a manifesto that inspired modern protest movements  Critical of 19th-century America’s booming commercialism and industrialism, Henry David...

A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851: 1815

By Henry David Thoreau

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

By Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau's account of his 1839 boat trip is a finely crafted tapestry of travel writing, essays, and lyrical poetry. Thoreau interweaves descriptions of natural phenomena, the rural landscape, and l...

Where I Lived, and What I Lived For

By Henry David Thoreau

Where I Lived, and What I Lived For

By Henry David Thoreau

The perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin's Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of history's most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged...

The Illustrated Walden

By Henry David Thoreau

To coincide with the bicentennial of Thoreau's birth and TarcherPerigee's publication of Expect Great Things: The Life of Henry David Thoreau, here is a sumptuous rediscovery edition of the first i...

Walking

By Henry David Thoreau

Walden

By Henry David Thoreau

Walden

By Henry David Thoreau