Walden
eBook - PDF

Walden

and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

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  1. 297 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Walden

and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

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About this book

One of the most famous non-fiction American books, Walden by Henry David Thoreau is the history of Thoreau's visit to Ralph Waldo Emerson's woodland retreat near Walden Pond. Thoreau, stirred by the philosophy of the transcendentalists, used the sojourn as an experiment in self reliance and minimalism... "e;so as to "e;live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."e; Walden stresses the significance of self-reliance, solitude, meditation, and nature in rising above the the life of quiet desperation lived by most people. that, he argues, is the lot of most people. Part autobiography, part manifesto Walden is a moving treatise on the importance distancing oneself from the consumerism of modern Western society and embracing nature in its place.

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Table of contents

  1. Title
  2. Contents
  3. Economy
  4. Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
  5. Reading
  6. Sounds
  7. Solitude
  8. Visitors
  9. The Bean-Field
  10. The Village
  11. The Ponds
  12. Baker Farm
  13. Higher Laws
  14. Brute Neighbors
  15. House-Warming
  16. Former Inhabitants and Winter Visitors
  17. Winter Animals
  18. The Pond in Winter
  19. Spring
  20. Conclusion
  21. On the Duty of Civil Disobedience