Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Original en 115677 words First published 1854 United States

Thoreau's account of the two years, two months and two days he spent in a cabin he built on Walden Pond, near Concord, Massachusetts — published in 1854 and never since out of the American canon. Not a hermit's memoir but an experiment in living: he went to the woods, he says, 'to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life'. Pond, bean-field, seasons, visitors, and the famous argument — later sharpened by 'Civil Disobedience' — for simplicity over accumulation. The classic American case for opting out, and the book Transcendentalism is remembered by.

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Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

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