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"When I read Thoreau, I realized how much I have missed by excluding nature from my life."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald [1896-1940]

Henry David Thoreau entry at Wikipedia
listed #65 on The Atlantic Monthly's Top 100 Most Influential Figures in American History [Dec 2006]

Primary Works
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Henry David Thoreau: "A Week On The Concord and Merrimack Rivers", "Walden, or Life In The Woods", "The Maine Woods", "Cape Cod" [1985] Edited by Robert F. Sayre Library of America 8x5½ hardcover [9/85] for $23.10 includes books "A Week On The Concord and Merrimack Rivers" [1849], "Walden, or Life In The Woods" [1854], "The Maine Woods" [1864] and "Cape Cod" [1865] Henry David Thoreau: Collected Essays and Poems [2001] Edited by Elizabeth Hall Witherell Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [4/2001] for $23.10 Thoreau: "Walden", "Maine Woods", Essays & Poems [2007] Edited by Robert F. Sayre & Elizabeth Hall Witherell Library of America College Editions 7¾x5 pb [6/2007] for $17.95

"The Higher Law: Thoreau On Civil Disobedience & Reform" [13 essays 2004] by Henry David Thoreau; Introduction by Howard Zinn Princeton Univ Press 8x5 pb [5/2004] for $9.71

"The Price Of Freedom: Political Philosophy From Thoreau's Journals" [2008]
Edited by David M. Gross ISBN 9781434805522

"The Landlord" [1843]

"A Week On The Concord and Merrimack Rivers" [1849]

"Resistance To Civil Government", or "Civil Disobedience" [1849]
"The Influence of Thoreau's Civil Disobedience on Gandhi's Satyagraha"
[The New England Quarterly 1956] by George Hendrix
etext of "On The Duty of Civil Disobedience" [1849]

"Walden, or Life In The Woods" [1854]
"Walden Pond: A History" [Oxford Univ Press 2004] by W. Barksdale Maynard

"Walking" [1861]

"Life Without Principle" [1863]

"Voices of Transcendentalism: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson & Henry David Thoreau" for Kindle [2008] Kindle Edition from C&C Web Press [2008] for $1.99 with "an active table of contents"; 32 works by Ralph Waldo Emerson including: "The American Scholar", "Compen-sation", "Concord Hymn", "The Conservative", "Divinity School Address", "The Method of Nature", "Nature", "New England Reformers", "The Over-Soul", "The Poet", "Self-Reliance", "The Transcen-dentalist" & "The Young American"; and 12 works by Thoreau including: "A Week On The Concord and Merrimack Rivers", "Civil Disobedience", "Life Without Principle", "The Landlord", "Walden" & "Walking"

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Works About Henry David Thoreau

"The Best of Thoreau's Journals" [Southern Illinois Univ Press 1967] by Carl Bode

"Wilderness and The American Mind" [orig 1973] by Roderick Nash /0300091222/
includes chapters on "Henry David Thoreau, Philosopher", "John Muir, Publicizer" & "Aldo Leopold, Prophet"

"The Days of Henry Thoreau" [Princeton Univ Press 1982] by Walter Harding

"The Book of Concord: Thoreau's Life As A Writer" [Viking Press, 1982] by William Howarth

"Henry Thoreau: A Life of The Mind" [Univ CA Press 1986]
by Robert D. Richardson ISBN 0520063465

"Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and 19th Century Science"
[Univ of Wisconsin 1995] by Laura Dassow ISBN 0299147444

"The Cambridge Companion To Henry David Thoreau"
[Cambridge Univ Press 1995] by Joel Myerson, et al

"Henry David Thoreau and The Moral Agency of Knowing"
[Univ CA Press 2001] by Alfred I. Tauber ISBN 0-520-23915-6

"American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne & Henry David Thoreau - Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work" [Thorndike Press 2006] by Susan Cheever ISBN 078629521X.

"American Transcendentalism: A History" [Hill & Wang 2007]
by Philip F. Gura ISBN 978-0-8090-3477-2

"The Transcendentalists" [Univ GA Press 2007]
by Barbara L. Packer ISBN 9780820329581

Links
Henry David Thoreau entry at Wikipedia
Thoreau Institute at Walden [est. 1998] in Maine
Thoreau papers at Northern Illinois University
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/thoreau/

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