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In his own day, Henry David Thoreau was little known outside his hometown of Concord, Massachusetts, where he was much admired for his passionate stance on social issues, his deep knowledge of natural history, and the originality of his lectures, essays,...

Generally unrecognized in his own day or, worse, dismissed as a second-rate imitator of his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, in the twentieth century, has emerged as one of America's greatest literary figures. Walden; Or, Life...

Generally unrecognized in his own day or, worse, dismissed as a second-rate imitator of his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, in the twentieth century, has emerged as one of America's greatest literary figures. Walden, his accou...

Walden by Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1817. His family moved away several times but always returned to the small New England town. In the 1830s and 1840s, Concord was a hotbed of activity for reformers...

This article is about a book by Henry David Thoreau. For other uses of the name, see Walden (disambiguation). Walden (first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an...

Tom Slayton set out hoping to renew interest in Henry David Thoreau, using his feet and his pen.It turned out that following Thoreau's footsteps to Cape Cod, Walden Pond and Maine's Mount Katahdin burnished his own admiration of the "Walden" author. Now, he hopes the...

A look at some of the seven South Carolina college students who died in a weekend beach house fire in North Carolina. Officials have not released the victims' names, but The Associated Press has confirmed several identities through relatives and close friends:University of South Carolina...

[Ed. note: this article was originally published on November 27, 1995.] This is a story about a dirty little secret in the dating world. Almost everybody’s been there—on one side or the other. Two men were sitting at the Princeton Club having drinks. It was...

Payments to rural counties hurt by cutbacks in federal logging would continue for a year under a deal reached Thursday.Four Oregon House members _ Republican Greg Walden and Democrats Earl Blumenauer, Peter DeFazio and Darlene Hooley _ said they had secured the one-year extension as...

In this excerpt, Paul examines Walden's numerous images of renewal and transformation.

This excerpt deals with Walden's style and structure, which Anderson claims is both circular and web-like.

In this excerpt, Woodson discusses Walden as a dialectical work with beginnings in both the private journal entries for July, 1845, and the public lecture delivered at the Concord Lyceum in February, 1847.

Describes the unexpected critiques on society found in Walden by Henry David Thoreau. Examines Thoreau's style and word usage as well as his overall intent of the novel

This essay is an opinion essay about Henry David Thoreau's "Walden." This essay deals with his philosophies and talks about the tone of his writing.

This is a discussion of Henry David Thoreau's experiences and thoughts in his book Walden. The emphasis is on his darker views, and the essay's author's personal relation to those.