Walden, and Civil Disobedience: Original & Unabridged Contributor(s): Thoreau, Henry David (Author) |
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ISBN: 1500923486 ISBN-13: 9781500923488 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $10.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Nature | Essays - Literary Collections | Essays - Literary Collections | American - General |
Dewey: 818.303 |
Lexile Measure: 1340 |
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6" W x 9" (0.81 lbs) 248 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - New England - Geographic Orientation - Massachusetts |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 6000 Reading Level: 8.7 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 21.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Walden by noted American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self-reliance. It details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts. The book compresses the time into a single calendar year and uses passages of four seasons to symbolize human development. By immersing himself in nature, Thoreau hoped to gain a more objective understanding of society through personal introspection. Simple living and self-sufficiency were Thoreau's other goals, and the whole project was inspired by transcendentalist philosophy, a central theme of the American Romantic Period. As Thoreau made clear in his book, his cabin was not in wilderness but at the edge of town, about two miles (3 km) from his family home. Civil Disobedience is an essay that was first published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice. Thoreau was motivated in part by his disgust with slavery and the Mexican-American War. |