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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: 3.84 · 304,104 ratings · 14,385 reviews · 2,266 distinct works • Similar authors

	Walden 3.78 avg rating — 191,744 ratings — published 1854 — 3627 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 — 37,860 ratings — published 1849 — 971 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 — 17,245 ratings — published 1866 — 91 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 — 17,401 ratings — published 1849 — 1412 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 3.76 avg rating — 9,688 ratings — published 1861 — 564 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 — 4,808 ratings — published 1854 — 16 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
	A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers / Walden / The Maine Woods / Cape Cod 4.23 avg rating — 2,182 ratings — published 1849 — 9 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 — 2,159 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) 3.85 avg rating — 1,409 ratings — published 1864 — 280 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 3.81 avg rating — 1,354 ratings — published 1854 — 23 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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October 2017 Old School Classic Poll

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, 1894, 277 pages

68 votes, 21.9%

Walden by Henry David Thoreau, 1854, 352 pages

41 votes, 13.2%

Hamlet by William Shakespeare, 1600, 289 pages

37 votes, 11.9%

Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos, 1782, 448 pages

33 votes, 10.6%

Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883, 327 pages

32 votes, 10.3%

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs, 1861, 176 pages

24 votes, 7.7%

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, 1862, 244 pages

24 votes, 7.7%

Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore, 1869, 750 pages

22 votes, 7.1%

The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1774, 176 pages

17 votes, 5.5%

Uncle Silas by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, 1864, 477 pages

13 votes, 4.2%

311 total votes

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