Henry David Thoreau

Walden

Read by Gord Mackenzie

Henry David Thoreau

Walden by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau’s lif…

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Version 2)

Read by Bob Neufeld

Henry David Thoreau

Civil Disobedience (Resistance to Civil Government) is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published i…

Walking

Read by Chris Masterson

Henry David Thoreau

This was originally a lecture given by Thoreau in 1851 at the Concord lyceum titled "The Wild" . He revised it before his death an…

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

Read by Gord Mackenzie

Henry David Thoreau

Civil Disobedience is an essay by Henry David Thoreau. Published in 1849 under the title Resistance to Civil Government, it expressed Thorea…

The Maine Woods

Read by Expatriate

Henry David Thoreau

On August 31, 1846, twenty-nine-year-old Henry David Thoreau left his cabin on Walden Pond to undertake a railroad and steamboat journey to …

Walden, Version 2

Read by Nick Bulka

Henry David Thoreau

Walden (first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, a refl…

Canoeing in the Wilderness

Read by Melissa Green

Henry David Thoreau

A highly descriptive and engaging narrative from one of America's beloved nature writers, this short piece shows well Thoreau's great love o…

Coffee Break Collection 008 - Animals

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Henry David Thoreau

This is the eighth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in len…

The Fisher's Boy

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Henry David Thoreau

LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 different recordings of the Fisher’s Boy by Henry David Thoreau. This was the weekly poetry project for the…

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Version 3)

Read by Phil Chenevert

Henry David Thoreau

"That government is best which governs least" is the famous opening line of this essay. The slavery crisis inflamed New England i…

Poems of Nature

Read by Larry Wilson

Henry David Thoreau

The fifty poems here brought together under the title ‘Poems of Nature’ are perhaps two-thirds of those which Thoreau preserved. Many of the…

Short Poetry Collection 024

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Henry David Thoreau

LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 024: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Excursions

Read by PhyllisV

Henry David Thoreau

Excursions is an 1863 anthology of several essays by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The anthology contains an introduction …

Walden oder Leben in den Wäldern

Read by Marcus Christopher

Henry David Thoreau

In Walden beschreibt Thoreau sein Leben in einer Blockhütte, die er sich 1845 in den Wäldern von Concord (Massachusetts) am See Wa…

Cape Cod

Read by PhyllisV

Henry David Thoreau

Cape Cod is one of several excursion books by Henry David Thoreau. The travel itinerary frames his thoughts about geography, natural and loc…

Short Poetry Collection 089

Read by LibriVox Volunteers

Henry David Thoreau and Robert Frost

This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the month of July 2010.

The Journal of Henry David Thoreau Volume 1: 1837 - 1846

Read by PhyllisV

Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist,h…

Walking (Version 2)

Read by Allyson Hester

Henry David Thoreau

This was originally titled "The Wild" and is a lecture given by Thoreau in 1851 at the Concord lyceum. "Walking" is an e…

The Service

Read by Phil Schempf

Henry David Thoreau

An essay in three parts written in July 1840. "Human life is his topic, and he views it with an Oriental scope of thought, in which di…