The comprehensive online collection of Henry David Thoreau's writings http://www.thoreau-online.org The Works of Henry David Thoreau - the comprehensive online collection of Henry David Thoreau's works - books, essays, letters and poetry. Free to read online. en-us A Plea for Captain John Brown by Henry David Thoreau http://www.thoreau-online.org/a-plea-for-captain-john-brown.html A Plea for Captain John Brown is an eloquent defense of the radical abolitionist, who with twenty-one other men seized the federal armory at Harper's Ferry. A Walk to Wachusett by Henry David Thoreau http://www.thoreau-online.org/a-walk-to-wachusett.html 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. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau http://www.thoreau-online.org/a-week-on-the-concord-and-merrimack-rivers.html A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers is the narrative of a boating trip that Thoreau took with his brother in 1839 from Concord, Massachusetts, to Concord, New Hampshire. A Winter Walk by Henry David Thoreau http://www.thoreau-online.org/a-winter-walk.html A Winter Walk is an essay that deals with relationship with nature. It describes a walk taken by Thoreau during the winter. A Yankee in Canada by Henry David Thoreau http://www.thoreau-online.org/a-yankee-in-canada.html A Yankee in Canada is a five-part description of Thoreau's 1850 trip to Canada: Concord to Montreal, Quebec and Montmorenci, St Anne... After the Death of John Brown by Henry David Thoreau http://www.thoreau-online.org/after-the-death-of-john-brown.html Thoreau's Remarks After the Death of John Brown is a speech given by Thoreau on 2 December 1859 at the time of John Brown's execution. Aulus Persius Flaccus by Henry David Thoreau http://www.thoreau-online.org/aulus-persius-flaccus.html Aulus Persius Flaccus is a Thoreau's essay about Persius, in full Aulus Persius Flaccus (AD 34-62), a Roman poet and satirist of Etruscan origin. Autumnal Tints by Henry David Thoreau http://www.thoreau-online.org/autumnal-tints.html Autumnal Tints is Thoreau classic essay about nature. Autumnal Tints describes the colors of New England fall. Cape Cod by Henry David Thoreau http://www.thoreau-online.org/cape-cod.html Cape Cod is Thoreau's sunniest, happiest book. It describes several trips Thoreau made to Cape Cod between 1849 and 1855. Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau http://www.thoreau-online.org/civil-disobedience.html Civil Disobedience or Resistance to Civil Government is an essay about the relationships between individual citizens and their government. Dark Ages by Henry David Thoreau http://www.thoreau-online.org/dark-ages.html Dark Ages is an essay by Henry D. Thoreau first published in The Dial 1843. Emerson-Thoreau I-VI (The Dial Period) by Henry David Thoreau http://www.thoreau-online.org/emerson-thoreau-i-vi-(the-dial-period).html Letters of Emerson and Thoreau from 1843. Letters I to VI. Emerson-Thoreau VII-XI (The Dial Period) by Henry David Thoreau http://www.thoreau-online.org/emerson-thoreau-vii-xi-(the-dial-period).html Letters of Emerson and Thoreau from 1843. Letters VII to XI. Emerson-Thoreau XI-XVI (The Dial Period) by Henry David Thoreau http://www.thoreau-online.org/emerson-thoreau-xi-xvi-(the-dial-period).html Letters of Emerson and Thoreau from 1843. Letters XI to XVI. Herald of Freedom by Henry David Thoreau http://www.thoreau-online.org/herald-of-freedom.html Herald of Freedom is an essay that praise 'Herald of Freedom', the journal of the New England Anti-Slavery Society and its editor, Nathaniel P. Rogers. Life Without Principle by Henry David Thoreau http://www.thoreau-online.org/life-without-principle.html Life Without Principle is an essay in which Thoreau condemns the American social system and job ladder. Natural History of Massachusetts by Henry David Thoreau http://www.thoreau-online.org/natural-history-of-massachusetts.html Natural History of Massachusetts is a half book review, half natural history essay, consisting of revised passages from Thoreau's journal. Night and Moonlight by Henry David Thoreau http://www.thoreau-online.org/night-and-moonlight.html Night and Moonlight is an essay concerned with the observations of Thoreau as a naturalist. Paradise (to be) Regained by Henry David Thoreau http://www.thoreau-online.org/paradise-(to-be)-regained.html Paradise (to be) Regained is an essay that takes the form of a review of John Adolphus Etzler's book The Paradise within the Reach of all Men, without Labor, by Powers of Nature and Machinery. Reform and the Reformers by Henry David Thoreau http://www.thoreau-online.org/reform-and-the-reformers.html Reform and the Reformers is an essay that reflects Thoreau's frustration with the multitude of reformers — prohibitionists, utopian communists, free love advocates, religious revivalists... Sir Walter Raleigh by Henry David Thoreau http://www.thoreau-online.org/sir-walter-raleigh.html Sir Walter Raleigh is an essay in which Thoreau praises Sir Walter Raleigh as a flawed but heroic figure, but who failed to use his heroic character to heroic ends. Slavery in Massachusetts by Henry David Thoreau http://www.thoreau-online.org/slavery-in-massachusetts.html 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. The Emerson-Thoreau Letters I-V (1847) by Henry David Thoreau http://www.thoreau-online.org/the-emerson-thoreau-letters-i-v-(1847).html The Emerson-Thoreau Correspondence: Letters of Emerson and Thoreau from the 1840’s and 1850’s. Letters I-V (1847). The Emerson-Thoreau Letters VI-X (1848) by Henry David Thoreau http://www.thoreau-online.org/the-emerson-thoreau-letters-vi-x-(1848).html The Emerson-Thoreau Correspondence: Letters of Emerson and Thoreau from the 1840’s and 1850’s. Letters I-V (1848). The Emerson-Thoreau Letters XI-XV (1848-1856) by Henry David Thoreau http://www.thoreau-online.org/the-emerson-thoreau-letters-xi-xv-(1848-1856).html The Emerson-Thoreau Correspondence: Letters of Emerson and Thoreau from the 1840’s and 1850’s. Letters XI-XV (1848-1856). The Highland Light by Henry David Thoreau http://www.thoreau-online.org/the-highland-light.html The Highland Light is one of Thoreau's Cape Cod essays. The Highland Light is a lighthouse located in Truro, Massachusetts. The Landlord by Henry David Thoreau http://www.thoreau-online.org/the-landlord.html The Landlord is an essay published in The United States Magazine and Democratic Review (1843). The Last Days of John Brown by Henry David Thoreau http://www.thoreau-online.org/the-last-days-of-john-brown.html The Last Days of John Brown is an essay that praised the executed abolitionist militia leader John Brown (written in 1860). The Maine Woods by Henry David Thoreau http://www.thoreau-online.org/the-maine-woods.html The Maine Woods is an account of three trips taken by boat and canoe; Ktaadn in 1846, Chesuncook in 1853 and Allegash and East Branch in 1857. The Service by Henry David Thoreau http://www.thoreau-online.org/the-service.html The Service is an essay partly on the subject of non-resistance and pacifist writers in which Thoreau warns that pacifism can be a temptation to passivity. The Succession of Forest Trees by Henry David Thoreau http://www.thoreau-online.org/the-succession-of-forest-trees.html 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. Thomas Carlyle and His Works by Henry David Thoreau http://www.thoreau-online.org/thomas-carlyle-and-his-works.html Thomas Carlyle and His Works is an essay in which Thoreau praises the writings of Thomas Carlyle, a Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian. Walden by Henry David Thoreau http://www.thoreau-online.org/walden.html Walden; or, Life in the Woods is a nonfiction book about Thoreau's experience at Walden Pond, near Concord, Massachusetts, from July 4, 1845, to September 6, 1847. Walking by Henry David Thoreau http://www.thoreau-online.org/walking.html Walking is an essay on experiencing the natural world. Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum by Henry David Thoreau http://www.thoreau-online.org/wendell-phillips-before-the-concord-lyceum.html Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum is a letter to the editor published in The Liberator in 1845 that praised the abolitionist lecturer Wendell Phillips. Wild Apples by Henry David Thoreau http://www.thoreau-online.org/wild-apples.html Wild Apples is an essay bemoaning the destruction of indigenous and wild apple species.