The Walden Woods Project maintains the preeminent collection of works by and about Henry David Thoreau. We continually digitize content from our collections to increase the material available on-line. On this page, you can access all of the works by Thoreau that are currently available in digital format.
Collected Works
- The Writings of Henry David Thoreau (Walden Edition) Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1906 [20 volumes]
Individual Works
- Cape Cod
- Correspondence
- Essays
- Journal
- Lectures
- The Maine Woods
- Notebooks
- Poetry
- Translations
- Walden
- A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
- A Yankee in Canada
Indices
- Animal Index to the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau
- Index to the Writings of Henry David Thoreau (1906)
- Ray Angelo – Botanical Index to the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau
- Ray Angelo – Place Names of Henry David Thoreau in Concord, Massachusetts (and in Lincoln, Massachusetts) & Other Botanical Sites in Concord
Digital Thoreau
A collaborative initiative of the Walden Woods Project, The Thoreau Society, and SUNY Geneseo, offering a “fluid text” edition of Walden that traces the work’s development across its seven manuscript versions, as well as a social reading platform for exchanging ideas in the margins of Thoreau’s works.
Selections
- Henry D. Thoreau Quotations
- Henry D. Thoreau Mis-Quotations
- Thoreau’s Contributions to The Dial
- A Bit of Unpublished Correspondence Between Henry Thoreau and Isaac Hecker edited by E. H. Russell (The Atlantic Monthly, September 1902) (PDF)
- Clear Sky, Pure Light: Encounters with Henry David Thoreau compiled from Thoreau’s writings by Christopher Childs (Lincoln, MA: The Penmaen Press, 1978)
- Days and Nights in Concord (Scribner’s Monthly and Illustrated Magazine for the People, September 1878)
- Days in June (The Atlantic Monthly, June 1878)
- The Emerson-Thoreau Correspondence: The Dial Period edited by Franklin B. Sanborn (The Atlantic Monthly, May 1892)
- The Emerson-Thoreau Correspondence: Emerson in Europe edited by Franklin B. Sanborn (The Atlantic Monthly, June 1892)
- Thoreau’s Journal I (The Atlantic Monthly, January 1905)
- Letters to Harrison Gray Otis Blake edited by Wendell Glick (from Great Short Works of Henry David Thoreau edited, with an introduction, by Wendell Glick (New York: Harper & Row, 1982). Reprinted courtesy of HarperCollins Publishers
- Winter Days (The Atlantic Monthly, January 1885)
- Words for Nature: Spirit, Wildness, and the Sublime in the Writings of Henry D. Thoreau compiled, edited and with a foreword by Edmund A. Schofield
