Walden and Civil Disobedience
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Walden and Civil Disobedience
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Walden and Civil Disobedience
Disdainful of America's booming commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thoreau left Concord, Massachusetts, in 1845 to live in solitude in the woods near Walden Pond. Walden, the account of his stay, conveys at once a naturalist's wonder at the commonplace and a Transcendentalist's yearning for spiritual truth and self-reliance.
Henry David Thoreau's masterworkWaldenis a collection of his reflections on life and society. In 1845, he moved to a cabin that he built with his own hands along the shores of Walden Pond in Massachusetts.
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Walden and Civil Disobedience by Henry Thoreau is often praised for its profound insights into simple living and individual resistance to injustice. Readers appreciate Thoreau's eloquent prose and thought-provoking reflections on nature, society, and personal freedom. However, some find his writing style a bit dense and his ideas idealistic. Overall, it is considered a timeless and inspiring work.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780140390445
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 26 January 1984
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Contributors:
- Introduction by Michael Meyer
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 16.0mm
Width: 126.0mm
Height: 194.0mm
Weight: 220g
Pages: 432
About the Author
Henry David Thoreauwas born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1817. 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 that included Margaret Fuller and Bronson Alcott. The Transcendentalists' faith in nature was tested by Thoreau between 1845 and 1847 when he lived for twenty-six months in a homemade hut at Walden Pond. While living at Walden, Thoreau worked on the two books published during his lifetime-Walden(1854) andA Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers(1849). Several of his other works, includingThe Maine Woods, Cape Cod, andExcursions, were published posthumously. Thoreau died in Concord, at the age of forty-four, in 1862. Kristen Case teaches at the University of Maine at Farmington, where she is associate professor of English. She is the author of American Pragmatism andPoetic Practice- Crosscurrents from Emerson to Susan Howe (Camden House, 2011) and Little Arias,a collection of poems (New Issues Press, 2015). She is coeditor of Thoreau at 200- Essays andReassessments (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and has published articles on Thoreau, EzraPound, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, and William James. She lives inTemple, Maine.
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