Author:Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

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Henry David Thoreau

Works

Essays

• Aulus Persius Flaccus (July 1840)
• Natural History of Massachusetts (July 1842)
• Homer, Ossian, Chaucer (January 1843)
• A Walk to Wachusett (January 1843)
• Dark Ages (April 1843)
• A Winter Walk (October 1843)
• Paradise (To Be) Regained (November 1843)
• Civil Disobedience, (1849)
• An Excursion to Canada, (1853)
• Slavery in Massachusetts, (1854)

Unsorted

• The Landlord, (1843)
• A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, (1849)
• Walden, (1854)
• A Plea for Captain John Brown, (1860)
• The Succession of Forest Trees, (1860)
• Walking, (1862)
• Autumnal Tints, (1862)
• Wild Apples: The History of the Apple Tree, (1862)
• Life Without Principle, (1863)
• Night and Moonlight, (1863)
• The Highland Light, (1864)
• Cape Cod, (1865) [1]
• Maine Woods (1864)
• A Yankee in Canada (with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers) (1892)
• Autumn (1892)
• The First and Last Journeys of Thoreau (1895)
• Poems of Nature (1895)
• Thoreau Poems (1920)
• A Winter Walk

Poetry

• All poems

Letters

• Familiar Letters of Henry David Thoreau (1894), edited by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn Index

Works about Thoreau

• A Fable for Critics (1848) by James Russell Lowell
• “Thoreau, Henry David” in The American Cyclopædia, 1879.
• “Thoreau, Henry David” in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed.), 1888.
• “Thoreau, Henry David” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.
• “Thoreau, Henry David” by Joseph McCabe in A Biographical Dictionary of Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Freethinkers, 1945.
• Octavius Brooks Frothingham, “Thoreau, Henry David,” Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1889.
• “Thoreau, Henry David,” The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1905.
• “Thoreau, Henry David” in The Nuttall Encyclopædia by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd., 1907.
• “Thoreau, Henry David” by William Sharp in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Thoreau, Henry David,” The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co., 1914.
• “Thoreau” by Archibald MacMechan, Chapter X of Book II of The Cambridge History of American Literature, 1918.
• “Thoreau, Henry David” in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.
• “Thoreau, Henry David,” Collier's New Encyclopedia. New York: P.F. Collier & Son Co., 1921.

On his works

• “Walden (book)” in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.