18 books like Walden

What to read after Walden — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Walden, or, Life in the Woods / On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Henry David Thoreau · 1849 · 202p · ≈ 6h · Challenging «Se è indubbio che Thoreau abbia trascorso gran parte della sua vita nella natura libera, per lo più in solitudine, lontano dal consorzio civile, è altrettanto vero che nella sua personalità così poliedrica e contraddittoria si manifesta anche una tendenza alla critica sociale: tutte le sue opere, sia le principali che le minori, testimoniano questo aspetto e lo confermano come estensione dei… Shares Solitude, Wilderness areas, Homes and haunts, Natural history

Walden and Civil Disobedience

Walden and Civil Disobedience Henry David Thoreau · 1960 · ★ 4.0 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares Solitude, Wilderness areas, Homes and haunts, Natural history with this book.

Shooting an Elephant and other essays George Orwell · 1950 · ★ 4.0 · 206p · ≈ 6h · Moderate 'Shooting an Elephant' is Orwell's searing and painfully honest account of his experience as a police officer in imperial Burma; killing an escaped elephant in front of a crowd 'solely to avoid looking a fool'. The other masterly essays in this collection include classics such as 'My Country Right or Left', 'How the Poor Die' and 'Such, Such were the Joys', his memoir of the horrors of public… Shares English essays, Essays, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir

Kant; a collection of critical essays Robert Paul Wolff · 1967 · ★ 3.5 · 415p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Shares Essays, Philosophy with this book.

Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief James Fenimore Cooper · 1897 · 148p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Autobiography of a Pocket Handkerchief is a serial novel by James Fennimore Cooper first published by Graham's Magazine in 1843. The novel explores the upper crust of New York Society from the perspective of a woman's handkerchief. Shares Classic Literature, Biography & Memoir

Adventures in Contentment David Grayson · 1907 · ★ 4.1 · 138p · ≈ 4h · Moderate This, I am firmly convinced, is a strange world, as strange a one as I Shares Homes and haunts, American Authors, Essays, Social life and customs

The Defendant Gilbert Keith Chesterton · 1901 · ★ 4.1 · 53p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Covering topics ranging from literature to philosophy, history to social criticism, this is a snapshot of thought on 20th-century Europe (and the world) by one of Europe's sharpest wits and ablest pens. With chapter titles ranging from “The Miser and His Friends” to “The Red Reactionary,” from “The Separatist and Sacred Things” to “The New Theologian” and “The Romantic in the Rain,” this volume… Shares English essays, Essays, Philosophy, Nonfiction

Civil Disobedience Henry David Thoreau · 1800 · ★ 4.0 · 28p · ≈ 56m · Challenging Written with the motto "that government is best that governs least", when men are ready for it, that will be the kind of government we will have. This book tries to tell us to think for ourselves. This is a Must Read for anyone anti-government. Please note: This book is in easy to read true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. This e-Book is printable. Shares Homes and haunts, American Authors, Essays, Philosophy

Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1902 · ★ 3.2 · 31p · ≈ 1h · Moderate A new, wide-ranging selection of Ralph Waldo Emerson's most influential writings, this edition captures the essence of American Transcendentalism and illustrates the breadth of one of America's greatest philosophers and poets.The writings featured here show Emerson as a protester against social conformity, a lover of nature, an activist for the rights of women and slaves, and a poet of great… Shares American Authors, Essays, Classic Literature

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou · 1969 · ★ 4.4 · 281p · ≈ 9h · Moderate She was born Marguerite, but her brother Bailey nicknamed her Maya ("mine"). As little children they were sent to live with their grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. Their early world revolved around this remarkable woman and the Store she ran for the black community. White people were more than strangers - they were from another planet. And yet, even unseen they ruled. The Store was a microcosm… Shares Homes and haunts, American Authors, Social life and customs, Nonfiction

Essays, first series Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1876 · ★ 5.0 · 376p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Emerson, Alfred Kazin observes in his Introduction, "was a great writer who turned the essay into a form all his own." His celebrated essays--the twelve published in Essays: First Series (1841) and eight in Essays: Second Series (1844)--are here presented for the first time in an authoritative one-volume edition, which incorporates all the changes and corrections Emerson made after their initial… Shares Essays, Philosophy, Nonfiction

A coat of many colours Herbert Edward Read · 1945 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares English essays, Essays with this book.

Fanshawe Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1828 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Published anonymously at his own expense in 1828, Hawthorne's first novel is an engrossing apprentice work. Shares Social life and customs, Classic Literature, Biography & Memoir

The Authentic Life of Billy, The Kid Pat Garrett · 2008 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Light Hankering for a mostly true tale about the hard-living desperadoes who inhabited America's desert Southwest in the mid-1800s? This biography of the ill-fated gunslinger Billy, the Kid was written by Pat Garrett, the sheriff who shot Billy down. Although some historians now question the veracity of some of the self-aggrandizing bluster Garrett and his ghostwriter included in the book, The… Shares Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir

Alcatraz Frederick Faust · 1922 · ★ 4.0 · 182p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares Classic Literature, Biography & Memoir with this book.

Autobiography

Autobiography Anderson L Staff · 2001 · 166p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

Mr. Nice Howard Marks · 1996 · 468p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

The Library of American Biography Jared Sparks · 1846 · 402p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

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