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 Henry David Thoreau · 1960 · ★ 3.6 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate A transcendentalist classic on social responsibility and a manifesto that inspired modern protest movements  Critical of 19th-century America’s booming commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thoreau moved to a small cabin in the woods of Concord, Massachusetts in 1845. Walden, the account of his stay near Walden Pond, conveys at once a naturalist’s wonder at the commonplace and a… Shares: Solitude, Wilderness areas, Homes and haunts, Natural history

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, Biography & Memoir

Adventures in Contentment David Grayson · 1907 · ★ 4.1 · 138p · ≈ 4h · Challenging 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

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

A coat of many colours Herbert Edward Read · 1945 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Challenging This book, first published in 1947, is collection of critical essays by Herbert Read that had not been previously published in book form. The essays cover several different subject areas, including literature, art, architecture, and film, from a span of twenty years. This title will be of interest to a variety of readers. Shares: English essays, Essays

The Defendant Gilbert Keith Chesterton · 1901 · ★ 4.1 · 53p · ≈ 1h · Challenging 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

Kant; a collection of critical essays Robert Paul Wolff · 1967 · ★ 3.5 · 415p · ≈ 13h · Moderate This book analyses and explains the central passage of Kant's philosophy, the "Transcendental Analytic" of the Critique of Pure Reason. It proceeds in the manner of a textual commentary, discussing and explaining each section of the Analytic in turn. The purpose, however, is not merely to comment chapter by chapter on what Kant has written, but rather to reorganise and interpret his argument so… Shares: Essays, Philosophy

Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1902 · ★ 3.8 · 31p · ≈ 1h · Challenging 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

Passages from the American note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1860 · ★ 4.0 · 460p · ≈ 15h · Challenging The American Notebooks follows chronological order, tracing Hawthorne's development over a period of eighteen years. The individual entries, however, are quite random in their makeup and contain adages, animal folklore, and biblical references that captivated Hawthorne. Observations of people whom he saw in the streets of nineteenth century Salem, Boston, and North Adams, Massachusetts, are mixed… Shares: Homes and haunts, American Authors, Social life and customs, Biography & Memoir

The essays of Francis Bacon Francis Bacon · 1900 · ★ 3.8 · 227p · ≈ 7h · Challenging The perfect addition to any literary buff’s library (or even if you’re not!), download and add Sir Francis Bacon's timeless essays to your collection. This humorous collection of essays offers a unique view on the common issues we all face. Sir Francis Bacon discusses Love, Truth, Death, Religion, and many other social problems that have been debated for centuries in these classic essays. This… Shares: English essays, Essays

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, Biography & Memoir

Italian journeys William Dean Howells · 1867 · 264p · ≈ 8h · Challenging "In the later part of his long and productive life - he wrote well over a dozen novels, thirty-one dramas, a few volumes of verse, several autobiographical works, eleven books of travel - W. D. Howells was considered one of America's foremost men of letters."--BOOK JACKET. "Italian Journeys, published in 1867 and written during the four years Howells spent as an American consul in Venice, is… Shares: Homes and haunts, American Authors, Biography & Memoir

Our Old Home Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1863 · 398p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Our Old Home, a series of English sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This volume of charming sketches was published in 1863, and (in the words of the author) presents “a few of the external aspects of English scenery and life, especially those that are touched with the antique charm to which our countrymen are more susceptible than are the people among whom it is of native growth.” Shares: Homes and haunts, Social life and customs

Modern essays Christopher Morley · 1921 · 351p · ≈ 11h · Challenging "A collection of representative contemporary essays" written by British and American authors. Shares: English essays, Essays

A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway · 1964 · ★ 4.0 · 207p · ≈ 6h · Moderate A Moveable Feast is a 1964 memoir belles-lettres by American author Ernest Hemingway about his years as a struggling expat journalist and writer in Paris during the 1920s. It was published posthumously.[1] The book details Hemingway's first marriage to Hadley Richardson and his associations with other cultural figures of the Lost Generation in Interwar France. The memoir consists of various… Shares: Homes and haunts, American Authors, Social life and customs, Biography & Memoir

Changing my mind Zadie Smith · 2009 · ★ 3.8 · 306p · ≈ 10h · Moderate A sparkling collection of Zadie Smith's nonfiction over the past decade.Zadie Smith brings to her essays all of the curiosity, intellectual rigor, and sharp humor that have attracted so many readers to her fiction, and the result is a collection that is nothing short of extraordinary.Split into four sections—"Reading," "Being," "Seeing," and "Feeling"—Changing My Mind invites readers to witness… Shares: English essays, Essays

The Death of the Moth, and Other Essays Virginia Woolf · 1942 · ★ 4.1 · 243p · ≈ 8h · Challenging A highly acclaimed collection of twenty-eight essays, sketches, and short stories presenting nearly every facet of the author's work. Shares: English essays, Essays

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