Major Essays by Thoreau

The major essays of Henry David Thoreau - Thoreau's major reform essays, walking essays and natural history essays.

Major essays by Henry D. Thoreau:

• Civil Disobedience
  Civil Disobedience or Resistance to Civil Government is an essay about the relationships between individual citizens and their government. (16 pages)
  
  
• Slavery in Massachusetts
  Slavery in Massachusetts is an essay based on a speech Thoreau gave at an anti-slavery rally at on July 4, 1854, after the reenslavement in Boston, Massachusetts of fugitive slave Anthony Burns. (10 pages)
  
  
• Life Without Principle
  Life Without Principle is an essay in which Thoreau condemns the American social system and job ladder. (13 pages)
  
  
• A Walk to Wachusett
  A Walk to Wachusett is an essay about a journey Thoreau took with Richard Fuller, from Concord to the summit of Mount Wachusett located in Princeton, Massachusetts. (10 pages)
  
  
• A Winter Walk
  A Winter Walk is an essay that deals with relationship with nature. It describes a walk taken by Thoreau during the winter. (10 pages)
  
  
• Walking
  Walking is an essay on experiencing the natural world. (21 pages)
  
  
• Natural History of Massachusetts
  Natural History of Massachusetts is a half book review, half natural history essay, consisting of revised passages from Thoreau's journal. (14 pages)
  
  
• The Succession of Forest Trees
  The Succession of Forest Trees is an essay in which Thoreau analyzes aspects of forest ecology and urges farmers to plant trees in natural patterns of succession. (10 pages)
  
  
• Autumnal Tints
  Autumnal Tints is Thoreau classic essay about nature. Autumnal Tints describes the colors of New England fall. (20 pages)
  
  
• Wild Apples
  Wild Apples is an essay bemoaning the destruction of indigenous and wild apple species. (16 pages)
  
  
• Other Essays ››
  A Plea for Captain John Brown, Paradise (to be) Regained, Reform and the Reformers, Sir Walter Raleigh, The Highland Light, Aulus Persius Flaccus, Dark Ages, Herald of Freedom, Night and Moonlight...