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A collection of essays by Henry D. Thoreau, including essays about an American abolitionist John Brown:

  • A Plea for Captain John Brown »
    Thoreau's eloquent defense of the radical abolitionist, who with twenty-one other men seized the federal armory at Harper's Ferry. (14 pages)

  • After the Death of John Brown »
    Speech given by Thoreau himself on 2 December 1859 at the time of John Brown's execution. (2 pages)

  • Aulus Persius Flaccus »
    Thoreau's essay about Persius, in full Aulus Persius Flaccus (AD 34-62), a Roman poet and satirist of Etruscan origin. (4 pages)

  • Dark Ages »
    Short historical essay that was first published in The Dial 1843. (2 pages)

  • Herald of Freedom »
    An essay that praises Herald of Freedom - the journal of the New England Anti-Slavery Society and its editor, Nathaniel P. Rogers. (6 pages)

  • Night and Moonlight »
    An essay concerned with the observations of Thoreau as a naturalist. (5 pages)

  • Paradise to be Regained »
    An essay that takes the form of a review of John Adolphus Etzlers book The Paradise within the Reach of all Men, without Labor, by Powers of Nature and Machinery. (18 pages)

  • Reform and the Reformers »
    An essay that reflects Thoreau's frustration with the multitude of reformers — prohibitionists, utopian communists, free love advocates, religious revivalists... (9 pages)

  • Sir Walter Raleigh »
    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. (25 pages)

  • The Highland Light »
    This is one of Thoreau's Cape Cod essays. The Highland Light is a lighthouse located in Truro, Massachusetts. (12 pages)

  • The Landlord »
    Thoreau's essay published in The United States Magazine and Democratic Review (1843). (5 pages)

  • The Last Days of John Brown »
    An essay that praised the executed abolitionist militia leader John Brown (written in 1860). (5 pages)

  • The Service »
    An essay partly on the subject of non-resistance and pacifist writers in which Thoreau warns that pacifism can be a temptation to passivity. (8 pages)

  • Thomas Carlyle and His Works »
    An essay in which Thoreau praises the writings of Thomas Carlyle, a Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian. (20 pages)

  • Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum »
    A letter to the editor published in The Liberator in 1845 that praised the abolitionist lecturer Wendell Phillips. (2 pages)

  • Biography
  • Books:
    • Walden; or, Life in the Woods (172 pages)
    • The Maine Woods (153 pages)
    • Cape Cod (112 pages)
    • A Yankee in Canada (45 pages)
    • A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (197 pages)
  • Major Essays:
    • Civil Disobedience (16 pages)
    • Slavery in Massachusetts (10 pages)
    • Life Without Principle (13 pages)
    • A Walk to Wachusett (10 pages)
    • A Winter Walk (10 pages)
    • Walking (21 pages)
    • Natural History of Massachusetts (14 pages)
    • The Succession of Forest Trees (10 pages)
    • Autumnal Tints (20 pages)
    • Wild Apples (16 pages)
  • Other Essays  »
  • Correspondence  »
  • Poems  »
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