Walden and Civil Disobedience
$19.98
- Paperback
312 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2023
Summary
In 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved into a cabin in the woods at Walden Pond to record a philosophical experiment in living: to simplify his life, to support himself entirely by his own labor, and to draw spiritual sustenance from his surroundings. The result: Walden: Or, Life in the Woods (1854).
In 1846, Thoreau refused to pay a mandated poll tax, refusing to support a government that protected slavery and had launched an aggressive war against Mexico. In his essay Civil Disobedience…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781435171817 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1435171810 |
| Author: | Henry Thoreau, Henry Thoreau, D. |
| Publisher: | Union Square & Co. |
| Imprint: | Union Square & Co. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 312 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2023 |
| Weight: | 410g |
| Dimensions: | 27mm x 203mm x 135mm |
| Series: | Signature Editions |
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About The Author
Henry Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was born in Concord, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard in 1837, the same year he began his lifelong Journal. Inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thoreau became a key member of the Transcendentalist movement.
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