6/09/2010

Walden and the Famous Essay on “Civil Disobedience”



Title: Walden and the Famous Essay on “Civil Disobedience”
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Publisher: A Mentor Book
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This volume contains two of the best works of one of the great American writers and personalities, Henry David Thoreau. Walden is the record of a famous experiment in essential living, the time Thoreau spent by Walden Pond living a life bare of creature comforts and shorn of superficialities, but rich in contemplation.

The essay on “Civil Disobedience,” Thoreau’s classic protest against government’s interference with individual liberty, has been added to this book to give the reader a complete view of a noted individualist and sage.

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