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1) Excursions
Excursions is an 1863 anthology of nine essays by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau.
Contains: Natural History of Massachusetts, A Walk to Wachusett, The Landlord, A Winter Walk, The Succession of Forest Trees, Walking, Autumnal Tints, Wild Apples, and Night and Moonlight.
In the fall of 1850, Henry David Thoreau briefly visited Quebec with Ellery Channing. In this book, Thoreau describes the cities and homes, people and customs, and rivers and plants of that part of Canada.
He describes what he sees as anachronistically servile, crown-loving traditions in Canada—and how these have stunted the imaginations and lives of the residents—and he contrasts these with the more independent, revolutionary Yankee
...Le roman raconte la vie que Thoreau a passée dans une cabane pendant deux ans, deux mois et deux jours, dans la forêt appartenant à son ami et mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, jouxtant l'étang de Walden (Walden Pond), non loin de ses amis et de sa famille qui résidaient à Concord, dans le Massachusetts.
Walden est écrit de telle façon que le séjour semble durer un an seulement. La narration suit les changements de saisons et Thoreau présente
4) The Service
Originally delivered as a lecture shortly before the writer’s own death, Henry David Thoreau’s classic “Autumnal Tints” is an ode to autumn not as the season of death and decay, but of ripeness, fullness, and maturity. -Amazon. First published in 1862 in The Atlantic Monthly.
In 1839, Thoreau and his brother took a small boat upriver and back. Some years later, while in his cabin at Walden Pond, he gathered his notes from that journey and other writings from his journals, and composed this, his first book.
Like the rivers it describes, the book meanders through varying territories and climates. He writes of the natural surroundings they encounter and of the history of the region, but also takes long and remarkable
...8) Walden
Walden is one of the more famous transcendentalist tracts in modern American literature. First published in 1854, Walden is an account of Thoreau’s famous experiment in solitude: spending over two years alone in a cabin near the wilderness.
Walden is broken into sections that meditate on single themes: economy, reading, sounds, solitude, visitors, and so on. The style is complex, weaving back and forth between
...Disobbedienza civile (Civil Disobedience) è il titolo del famoso saggio presentato per la prima volta nel 1848 e pubblicato nel 1849 all'interno dell'Aesthetic Papers di Elizabeth Peabody con il titolo di Resistenza al governo Civile (Resistance to Civil Government). Diventò famoso con il titolo di Civil Disobedience solo dopo la morte dell'autore.
In questo saggio Thoreau condanna apertamente le scelte del governo statunitense, in particolare
La Désobéissance civile, titre original Civil Disobedience est un essai de Henry David Thoreau publié en 1849. H.D. Thoreau écrit sur le thème de la désobéissance civile, en se fondant sur son expérience personnelle.
En juillet 1846, Thoreau fut emprisonné, n'ayant volontairement pas payé un impôt à l'état américain, car il lui reprochait de soutenir l'esclavage qui régnait alors dans le Sud et de mener une guerre contre le
11) Cape Cod
12) The Landlord
First published in 1843 in The Dial.
This essay is based on a speech Thoreau first delivered to an audience at Concord, Massachusetts, on October 30, 1859, two weeks after John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, and repeated several times before Brown's execution on December 2, 1859. It was later published as a part of Echoes of Harper's Ferry in 1860. -Wikipedia
20) Wild Apples
In this essay, Thoreau ponders the history and importance of the Apple tree.