With their call for "simplicity, simplicity, simplicity ," forself-honesty, and for harmony with nature, the writings of HenryDavid Thoreau are perhaps the most influential philosophical worksin all American literature. The selections in this volume representThoreau at his best. Included in their entirety are "Walden," hisindisputable masterpiece, and his two great arguments fornonconformity, "Civil Disobedience" and "Life Without Principle." Alifetime of brilliant observation of nature--and of himself--isrecorded in selections from "A Week On The Concord And MerrimackRivers, Cape Cod, The Maine Woods" and "The Journal."
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau, Writer / Peacenik,(born July 12, 1817,Concord, Mass., U.S.-died May 6, 1862, Concord).
A former schoolteacher, Thoreau spent two years in the 1840sliving in a hut beside Walden Pond in Massachusetts, where hestudied nature and wrote peaceful essays and poems. His journal ofthese years became his most famous work: Walden, or a Life in theWoods (published 1854). Thoreau also wrote Civil Disobedience(1849), advocating non-violent resistance to unethical governments;the same notion was later advocated by Gandhi and Martin LutherKing, Jr. Always a hit with college readers, Thoreau became a popicon for anti-war and pro-environment groups late in the 20thcentury.
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