Author:Henry David Thoreau
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American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, pacifist, tax resister and philosopher who is most famous for Walden. 
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Henry David Thoreau
Works
Books
- Sir Walter Raleigh [1844] (first publ. 1905)
- A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)
- Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854)
- The Maine Woods (1864)
- Cape Cod (1865)
- Early Spring in Massachusetts: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau (1881), edited by H. G. O. Blake
- Summer: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau (1884), edited by H. G. O. Blake
- The succession of forest trees, and Wild apples (1887) (transcription project)
- Winter: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau (1888), edited by H. G. O. Blake
- Autumn: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau (1892), edited by H. G. O. Blake
- Miscellanies (1894) (transcription project)
- Friendship, love & marriage (1910 edition) (transcription project)
Orations, Lectures, and Addresses
- Civil Disobedience
- Slavery in Massachusetts (1854)
- A Plea for Captain John Brown (1860) [1859]
Essays
- Aulus Persius Flaccus (July 1840)
- Homer, Ossian, Chaucer (January 1843)
- Dark Ages (April 1843)
- "A Winter Walk." The Dial (October 1843): 211–226.
- "The Landlord" The United States Magazine and Democratic Review 13: 427–430. (October 1843)
- An Excursion to Canada (1853) [1866 edition]
- Chesuncook (1858)
- The Last Days of John Brown (1860)
- "Martyrdom of John Brown." Echoes of Harpers Ferry: 439-445.
- "Walking" in The Atlantic Monthly, 9 (56) (1862): 657-674.
- "Autumnal Tints" in The Atlantic Monthly, 10 (60) (1862): 385-402.
- "Life Without Principle" in The Atlantic Monthly, 12 (71) (1863): 484-495.
- "Night and Moonlight" in The Atlantic Monthly, 12 (72) (1863): 579-583.
- "The Wellfleet Oysterman" in The Atlantic Monthly, 14 (84) (1864): 470-478.
- "The Highland Light" in The Atlantic Monthly, 14 (86) (1864): 649-659.
- Excursions (1863), anthology containing nine essays and a biographical sketch
- Natural History of Massachusetts (July 1842)
- A Walk to Wachusett (January 1843)
- The Landlord (1843)
- A Winter Walk (October 1843)
- The Succession of Forest Trees (1860)
- Walking (1862)
- Autumnal Tints (1862)
- Wild Apples (1862)
- Night and Moonlight (1863)
- A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers (1866), anthology of essays and addresses
- Concord to Montreal (1853)
- Quebec to Montmorenci (1853)
- St. Anne (1853)
- The Walls of Quebec (1853)
- The Scenery of Quebec; and the River St. Lawrence (1853)
- Slavery in Massachusetts (July 4, 1854)
- Prayers (1866)
- Civil Disobedience (1849)
- A Plea for Captain John Brown (October 30, 1859)
- Paradise (to be) Regained (November 1843)
- Herald of Freedom (April 1844)
- Thomas Carlyle and His Works (March 1847)
- Life without Principle (October 1863)
- Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum (March 28, 1845)
- The Last Days of John Brown (July 4, 1860)
- Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers (1890) (transcription project)
- The Service (1902) Written ca. 1840
- Resistance to Civil Government
- "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience," in Man or the State? (pp. 70−89), (ed.) by Waldo Ralph Browne, New York: B. W. Huebsch (1919)
Poetry
- See also a list of poems and bits of verse
- Poems of Nature (1895)
- Unpublished Poems by Bryant and Thoreau (1907) (transcription project)
Translations
- Anacreontics: thirteen translations from the Greek
- The Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus by Aeschylus [1843] (1906)
- "Translations from Pindar" by Pindar [???] (1906)
Literary reviews
- Paradise (to be) Regained (November 1843)
Obituaries
- "DIED...Miss Anna Jones." [obituary] The Yeoman's Gazette 22 (25 November 1837).
Letters
- Letters to Various Persons (1865) (transcription project)
- Familiar Letters of Henry David Thoreau (1894), edited by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (transcription project)
- Some unpublished letters of Henry D. and Sophia E. Thoreau: A Chapter in the History of a Still-born Book (1898) (transcription project)
- "A Bit of Unpublished Correspondence Between Henry D. Thoreau and Isaac T. Hecker" [1844] edited by E. Harlow Russell (1902)
Collections
- The Writings of Henry David Thoreau
- (1893) edition in 10 volumes: Vol. 2, Vol. 7, vol 8 (1894 printing)
- (1899) edition: Vol. 1, Vol. 3, vol 7
- (1900) edition: Vol. 2, Vol. 4, Vol. 6, vol 9, vol 10
- (1906) edition in 20 vols.
- Vol. 1: "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" (transcription project)
- Vol. 2: "Walden" (transcription project)
- Vol. 3: "The Maine woods" (transcription project)
- Vol. 4: "Cape Cod and Miscellanies" (transcription project)
- Vol. 5: "Excursions and Poems" (transcription project)
- Vol. 6: "Familiar Letters" (expanded) (transcription project)
- Vol. 7: "Journal" Vol. 1 (transcription project)
- Vol. 8: "Journal" Vol. 2 (transcription project)
- Vol. 9: "Journal" Vol. 3 (transcription project)
- Vol. 10: "Journal" Vol. 4 (transcription project)
- Vol. 11: "Journal" Vol. 5 (transcription project)
- Vol. 12: "Journal" Vol. 6 (transcription project)
- Vol. 13: "Journal" Vol. 7 (transcription project)
- Vol. 14: "Journal" Vol. 8 (transcription project)
- Vol. 15: "Journal" Vol. 9 (transcription project)
- Vol. 16: "Journal" Vol. 10 (transcription project)
- Vol. 17: "Journal" Vol. 11 (transcription project)
- Vol. 18: "Journal" Vol. 12 (transcription project)
- Vol. 19: "Journal" Vol. 13 (transcription project)
- Vol. 20: "Journal" Vol. 14 (transcription project)
- The First and Last Journeys of Thoreau, 2 vols. (1905) Vol. 1, Vol. 2
Works about Thoreau
Books
- Thoreau: The Poet-naturalist, by William Ellery Channing, 1873. (transcription project)
- Henry D. Thoreau by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, 1882. (transcription project)
- The Personality of Thoreau by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, 1901. (transcription project)
- Pertaining to Thoreau. by Jones, Samuel Arthur, 1834-1912. Published 1901
- Thoreau: His Home, Friends and Books by Annie Russell Marble, 1902.
- Henry Thoreau's mother by Le Brun, Jean Munroe, 1908.
- Thoreau: As remembered by a young friend by Edward Emerson, 1917.
- "Thoreau" by Archibald MacMechan, Chapter X of Book II of The Cambridge History of American Literature, 1918.
- Thoreau by Henry Seidel Canby, 1939.
- Thoreau's library. by Harding, Walter Roy, 1917-1996. Published 1957.
Biographical dictionaries
- "Thoreau, Henry David," by Octavius Brooks Frothingham in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1889)
- "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.
Encyclopedia articles
- "Thoreau, Henry David," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
- "Thoreau, Henry David," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 23) (1888)
- "Thoreau, Henry David," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
- "Thoreau, Henry David," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) 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," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
- "Thoreau, Henry David," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- "Thoreau, Henry David," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
Unsorted
- A Fable for Critics by James Russell Lowell (1848)
- "Biographical Sketch" by Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Excursions (1863)
- "Henry David Thoreau: His Character and Opinions", in Familiar Studies of Men and Books (1917) by Robert Louis Stevenson
- "Thoreau's Flute", an elegy by Louisa May Alcott [Sep 1863] (1950) (transcription project)
On his works
- "Walden (book)," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1930, and 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.
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