Product Details
ISBN: 9780679600046
Category: 19th Century Fiction
Format: Hardback
Publication Date: 1994-05-31
Series: Modern Library of the World's Best
Publisher: Random House Inc
Country of origin: USA
Pages: 784
Weight: 712g
Walden And Other Writings
With their call for "simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!”, for self-honesty, and for harmony with nature, the writings of Henry David Thoreau are perhaps the most influential philosophical works in all American literature. The selections in this volume represent Thoreau at his best. Included in their entirety areWalden, his indisputable masterpiece, and his two great arguments for nonconformity,Civil DisobedienceandLife Without Principle. A lifetime of brilliant observation of nature--and of himself--is recorded in selections fromA Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers, Cape Cod, The Maine WoodsandThe Journal.