Henry David Thoreau

Walden


Read by Gord Mackenzie


Walden by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau’s lif…

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Version 2)


Read by Bob Neufeld


Civil Disobedience (Resistance to Civil Government) is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published i…

Walking


Read by Chris Masterson


This was originally a lecture given by Thoreau in 1851 at the Concord lyceum titled "The Wild" . He revised it before his death an…

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience


Read by Gord Mackenzie


Civil Disobedience is an essay by Henry David Thoreau. Published in 1849 under the title Resistance to Civil Government, it expressed Thorea…

The Maine Woods


Read by Expatriate


On August 31, 1846, twenty-nine-year-old Henry David Thoreau left his cabin on Walden Pond to undertake a railroad and steamboat journey to …

Walden, Version 2


Read by Nick Bulka


Walden (first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, a refl…

Canoeing in the Wilderness


Read by Melissa Green


A highly descriptive and engaging narrative from one of America's beloved nature writers, this short piece shows well Thoreau's great love o…

Coffee Break Collection 008 - Animals


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This is the eighth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in len…

The Fisher's Boy


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LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 different recordings of the Fisher’s Boy by Henry David Thoreau. This was the weekly poetry project for the…

Coffee Break Collection 003 - Nature


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This is a collection of short (15 minute or less readings) works in English suitable for a coffee break at work or a short commuter ride. Th…

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Version 3)


Read by Phil Chenevert


"That government is best which governs least" is the famous opening line of this essay. The slavery crisis inflamed New England i…

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 009


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A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in these collecti…

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 008


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A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in this collectio…

Short Story Collection Vol. 013


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LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 013: a collection of 11 short fictional works in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members.

Coffee Break Collection 009 - Autumn


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This is the ninth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in leng…

LibriVox 6th Anniversary Collection


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What do you do for a sixth anniversary? We challenged our readers to find any short works which had 'six' in the title - in any language. Th…

Poems of Nature


Read by Larry Wilson


The fifty poems here brought together under the title ‘Poems of Nature’ are perhaps two-thirds of those which Thoreau preserved. Many of the…

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 029


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Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include architecture, education, philosophy,…

Short Poetry Collection 024


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LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 024: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Excursions


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Excursions is an 1863 anthology of several essays by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The anthology contains an introduction …

Short Poetry Collection 006


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LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 006: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Cape Cod


Read by PhyllisV


Cape Cod is one of several excursion books by Henry David Thoreau. The travel itinerary frames his thoughts about geography, natural and loc…

Walden oder Leben in den Wäldern


Read by Marcus Christopher


In Walden beschreibt Thoreau sein Leben in einer Blockhütte, die er sich 1845 in den Wäldern von Concord (Massachusetts) am See Wa…

Poetry Miscellany 02


Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)


As we get older, many of us return to youthful memories of poems once significant to us. Outside their association with our youth, we may wo…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 065


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Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. A review of William Carlos Williams' "Kora in Hell" by Robert McAlmon is one …

Short Poetry Collection 025


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LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 025: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Short Poetry Collection 196


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This is a collection of 54 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for September 2019.

Short Poetry Collection 089


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This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the month of July 2010.

Short Poetry Collection 012


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LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 012: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Short Poetry Collection 194


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This is a collection of 51 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for July 2019.

The Journal of Henry David Thoreau Volume 1: 1837 - 1846


Read by PhyllisV


Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist,h…

Short Poetry Collection 027


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LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 027: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Walking (Version 2)


Read by Allyson Hester


This was originally titled "The Wild" and is a lecture given by Thoreau in 1851 at the Concord lyceum. "Walking" is an e…

Short Poetry Collection 205


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This is a collection of 69 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for June 2020.

Short Poetry Collection 035


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LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 035: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

The Service


Read by Phil Schempf


An essay in three parts written in July 1840. "Human life is his topic, and he views it with an Oriental scope of thought, in which di…

Short Poetry Collection 030


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LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 030: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Short Poetry Collection 102


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This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for November 2011.

Short Poetry Collection 045


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LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 045: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Short Poetry Collection 034


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LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 034: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Short Poetry Collection 039


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LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 039: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Coffee Break Collection 031 - Springtime


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This is the 31st Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read 20 stories or poems of their choice, fiction or non-fict…

Short Poetry Collection 218


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This is a collection of 43 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for July 2021.

Short Poetry Collection 220


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This is a collection of 44 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for September 2021.

First Chapter Collection 007


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The first chapter of a book is often the hook to draw a reader in. It could make you eager for more or realize it isn't for you. Here we off…

Bill Quigley Message To A Social Justice Law Student (excepts Podcast)



Henry David Thoreau - essential excepts from Civil Disobedience, mixed with music 

Henry David Thoreau Essential Excepts From Civil Disobedience (podcast)



"From what I see, there are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." Thoreau's advice on vo…