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Walden, and on the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau
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Walden, and on the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau
Originally published in 1854, Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau used this time to write his first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. The experience later inspired Walden, in which Thoreau compresses the time into a single calendar year and uses passages of four seasons to symbolize human development.
Walden is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and (to some degree) manual for self-reliance. On The Duty of Civil Disobedience [formerly known as Resistance to Civil Government (Civil Disobedience)] was first published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice. Thoreau was motivated in part by his disgust with slavery and the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). -Wikipedia
While living in solitude in a cabin on Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau wrote his most famous work, Walden, a paean to the idea that it is foolish to spend a lifetime seeking material wealth. In his words, "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."Thoreau's love of nature and his advocacy of a simple life have had a large influence on modern conservation and environmentalist movements.
-Library of Congress
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | June 9, 2017 |
ISBN13 | 9781547272952 |
Publishers | Createspace Independent Publishing Platf |
Pages | 196 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 11 mm · 267 g |
Language | English |
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