The writer and philosopher Henry David Thoreau was one of the most important American literary figures and philosophers of the nineteenth century. Thoreau works still read widely today include his ...

Recently I was delighted to come across a new book about Henry David Thoreau, Thoreau's God, by Richard Higgins from the University of Chicago Press. It rekindled the initial thrill of encountering ...

Henry David Thoreau is one of those figures whose name one may know but whose writing often boils down in the mind to titles of works never read — including "Walden" and "Civil Disobedience." Some ...