Walden & Civil Obedience

Walden is his autobiographical record of his life of relative isolation at Walden Pond, but it is also a work of detailed natural history and the expression of a philosophy of life by a deeply poetic sensibility. His essay, 'Civil Disobedience', has over the 150 or so years since its publication exerted an enormous influence.

Summary

Walden is his autobiographical record of his life of relative isolation at Walden Pond, but it is also a work of detailed natural history and the expression of a philosophy of life by a deeply poetic sensibility. His essay, `Civil Disobedience', has over the 150 or so years since its publication exerted an enormous influence.

Product details

• Authors: H.d Thoreau, Henry D. Thoreau
• Assisted by: Tom Griffith (Editor)
• Publisher: Wordsworth
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2016
• EAN: 9781840225976
• ISBN: 978-1-84022-597-6
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature; Wordsworth Classics of World Literature; Classics of World Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Biography / Autobiography