Thoreau's account of his 1839 boat trip is a finely crafted tapestry of travel writing, essays, and lyrical poetry. Thoreau interweaves descriptions of natural phenomena, the ...more

With their call for "simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!”, for self-honesty, and for harmony with nature, the writings of Henry David Thoreau are perhaps the most...more

The author describes his experience with nature while living on Walden Pond for two years. It is an insightful look at the author's life and the people he has met during that...more

The title says it all; this is a book about walking; it's a wonderful book that you can read for motivation and inspiration. It a very thought provoking book of one man ...more

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 ...more

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Walden and Civil disobedience...more

In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his pencil-manufacturing business and began building a cabin on the shore of Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. This lyrical yet ...more

"What a wilderness walk for a man to take alone!...Here was traveling of the old heroic kind over the unaltered face of nature." Henry David Thoreau Over a period of three ...more

Who is John Galt?This famous rhetorical question rings through Ayn Rand's best-selling novel as the people's anthem of despair in depressed ...more

Many of Steinbeck's books took place in the world of migrant workers in California. Of Mice and Men follows two such drifters, Lennie and George, and recounts their peculiar ...more

By telling the story through the voices of several narrators, Faulkner provided deep observations of a Southern family's move to a new town and life. The book is not ...more

This is the novel that made Hemingway a literary star. Set in Italy during wartime, it tells the difficult and bittersweet story of love between a soldier and a nurse. It ...more

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Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner wrote about the conflicts of the human heart. In this book, the reader follows protagonist Henry Sutpen through the vast ...more

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